Rehabilitation Methods for Patients with Geographic Atrophy due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Effects of Rehabilitation on Quality of Life

Table 3

The baseline scores of the quality of life scales (NEI-VFQ-25) in rehabilitation and control groups.

Quality of life scales	The median [Q1, Q3]
	Rehabilitation group (n = 57)	Control group (n = 21)
Overall composite score	45.59 [39, 53]	47.50 [38, 52]	0.888
General health	50.00 [38, 60]	45.00 [38, 55]	0.290
General vision	40.00 [30, 45]	30.00 [23, 38]	<0.001
Ocular pain	100.00 [100, 100]	100.00 [100, 100]	0.408
Near activities	25.00 [17, 29]	25.00 [15, 33]	0.657
Distance activities	29.17 [21, 50]	33.33 [23, 40]	0.730
Vision-specific:
Social functioning	50.00 [33, 67]	41.67 [25, 50]	0.011
Mental health	50.00 [45, 65]	55.00 [45, 65]	0.973
Role difficulties	25.00 [25, 47]	25.00 [25, 44]	0.804
Dependency	68.75 [50, 78]	68.75 [50, 78]	0.721
Color vision	100.00 [100, 100]	100.00 [100, 100]	0.479
Peripheral vision	75.00 [75, 100]	75.00 [50, 75]	0.613

Mann–Whitney U test.