Comparing Telephone Survey Responses to Best-Corrected Visual Acuity to Estimate the Accuracy of Identifying Vision Loss: Validation Study
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance2023Vol. 9, pp. e44552–e44552
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John S. Wittenborn, Aaron Lee, Elizabeth A. Lundeen, Phoebe A. Lamuda, Jinan Saaddine, Grace L. Su, Randy Lu, Aashka Damani, Jonathan Zawadzki, Colin P. Froines, Jolie Shen, Timothy-Paul H. Kung, Ryan T. Yanagihara, Morgan Maring, Melissa M. Takahashi, Marian Blazes, David B. Rein
Abstract
Although survey questions are not considered to be sufficiently accurate to be used as a diagnostic test at the individual level, we did find relatively high levels of accuracy for some questions. At the population level, we found that the relative prevalence of the 2 most accurate survey questions were highly correlated with the prevalence of measured visual acuity loss among nearly all demographic groups. The results of this study suggest that self-reported vision questions fielded in national surveys are likely to yield an accurate and stable signal of vision loss across different population groups, although the actual measure of prevalence from these questions is not directly analogous to that of BCVA.
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