To assess the change in vision-related quality of life and psychosocial well-being of the patients with episcleritis and scleritis patients before and after treatment. This one-and-a-half-year prospective study was conducted among 76 eyes of 71 new patients of episcleritis and scleritis. A structured questionnaire was used to assess the visual and to analyze the change in effect size. The male-to-female ratio was 1:1.536. Episcleritis was seen in 41 cases (57.7%) while scleritis was seen in 30 cases (42.3%). Patients with episcleritis had statistically significant improvement in general function score (GF) (p < 0.05) using paired t-test. The effect size showed medium improvement (approximately 0.5). Whereas there was no statistically significant change in psychosocial impact (PI), visual symptoms (VS) scoring, and a total score (p < 0.05) using paired t-test. The effect size showed no improvement for PI and total score and small improvement for VS score. Patients with scleritis had statistically significant improvement in general function score (GF), visual symptoms (VS) scoring and total score (p < 0.05) using paired-t-test. The effect size showed medium improvement (approximately 0.5) for general function score (GF) and total score. However, the effect size showed only a small improvement (approximately 0.2) for psychosocial impact (PI) score. VisionRelated Quality of Life of patients with scleritis showed significant improvement following treatment unlike episcleritis indicating scleritis more adversely affecting psychosocial well-being.

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巩膜外层炎和巩膜炎患者与视力相关的生活质量和社会心理健康：被忽视的本质？


评估巩膜外层炎和巩膜炎患者治疗前后视力相关生活质量和社会心理健康的变化。这项为期一年半的前瞻性研究对 71 名巩膜外层炎和巩膜炎新患者的 76 只眼睛进行了研究。使用结构化问卷来评估视觉效果并分析效应大小的变化。男女比例为1:1.536。巩膜外层炎41例（57.7%），巩膜炎30例（42.3%）。使用配对 t 检验，巩膜外层炎患者的一般功能评分 (GF) (p < 0.05) 有统计学显着改善。效果大小显示出中等程度的改善（大约 ​​0.5）。而使用配对 t 检验，心理社会影响 (PI)、视觉症状 (VS) 评分和总分 (p < 0.05) 没有显着变化。效果大小显示 PI 和总分没有改善，而 VS 分数有小幅改善。使用配对 t 检验，巩膜炎患者的一般功能评分 (GF)、视觉症状 (VS) 评分和总分 (p < 0.05) 有统计学显着改善。一般功能评分 (GF) 和总分的效果大小显示中等改善（约 0.5）。然而，效果大小显示社会心理影响 (PI) 评分仅略有改善（约 0.2）。与巩膜外层炎不同，巩膜炎患者的视力相关生活质量在治疗后显示出显着改善，表明巩膜炎对社会心理健康的影响更大。