Evaluation of Reliability and Validity of Three Common Dry Eye Questionnaires in Chinese

Table 1

Results of the questionnaires and clinical dry eye test in dry eye group () and non-dry eye group ().

	Dry eye	Non-dry eye
MQ	16.4 ± 4.5	7.0 ± 4.6	<0.001
OSDI	35.8 ± 13.4	15.3 ± 9.9	<0.001
SEEQ	1.4 ± 0.9	0.1 ± 0.3	<0.001
TBUT (s)	3.2 ± 1.1	7.2 ± 3.3	<0.001
SIT (mm/5 min)	3.8 ± 2.2	7.9 ± 4.4	<0.001
FL	5.3 ± 2.2	0.4 ± 0.8	<0.001

MQ: McMonnies Questionnaire; OSDI: Ocular Surface Disease Index; SEEQ: Salisbury Eye Evaluation Questionnaire; TBUT: tear film break-up time; SIT: Schirmer I test; FL: fluorescein corneal staining.