Dry Eye Disease And Impact On Quality Of Life: Evaluation And Correlation Analysis.

Published 2024 - 42nd Congress of the ESCRS

Reference: PO896 | Type: Poster | DOI: 10.82333/7sna-hb61

Authors: Idriss Benatiya Andaloussi* ¹ , HASSAN MOUTEI ² , AHMED BENNIS ² , FOUAD CHRAIBI ² , MERIEM ABDELLAOUI ²

¹Ophthalmology Department,Hassan II University Hospital Center,FEZ,Morocco;Ophthalmology Department,Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry of Fez Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University,FES,Morocco, ²Ophthalmology Department,Hassan II University Hospital Center,FEZ,Morocco

Purpose

To determine the impact of dry eye on the quality of life of dry eye patients by the OSDI score and correlate it with clinical tests.

Discussion and conclusions: Dry eye, a real disease of the surface of the eye, is still and will always be a topical subject to which we must improve access and the quality of eye care for patients who suffer from this pathology, by ensuring, among other things, an adequate follow-up, ideally by the same practitioner. Similarly, we must think about detecting this pathology and evaluating its impact on the daily lives of our patients to ensure proper management.

Setting

A descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study

Methods

This is a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study that took place in the ophthalmology department of the Omar-Drissi hospital at the Hassan II University Hospital Center, Fez, having included any patient coming for an ophthalmology consultation for any reason between February 28 and March 11, 2022 (15 days), and in whom a diagnosis of dry eye was established on clinical criteria. To do this, most of the data collected from patients was correlated with the OSDI score, given by the questionnaire of the same name

Results

In total we had selected 79 patients (158 eyes), 5.64% of all consultants. The average age is 55.01 years. There is a female predominance, with 13 of the womens having an OSDI greater than 23. On the clinical level : the revealing and predominant symptoms in this study are pain, pruritus and tearing. We found a BUT less than 3 seconds in 82 eyes and a pathological Schirmer's test in 103 eyes. The multivariate analysis between the OSDI and the different clinical parameters analyzed showed a correlation with treatment with lacrimal substitutes and posterior blepharitis, while no correlation was shown between the OSDI score and the clinical tests including the Schirmer test, BUT and Oxford score.

Conclusions

Dry eye, a real disease of the surface of the eye, is still and will always be a topical subject to which we must improve access and the quality of eye care for patients who suffer from this pathology, by ensuring, among other things, an adequate follow-up, ideally by the same practitioner. Similarly, we must think about detecting this pathology and evaluating its impact on the daily lives of our patients to ensure proper management.