Visual Activities Questionnaire (VAQ)

Reference citation:

Sloane, M.E., Ball, K., Owsley, C., Bruni, J.R., Roenker, D.L. The Visual Activities Questionnaire: Developing an instrument for assessing problems in everyday visual tasks. Technical Digest, Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System, Topical Meeting of the Optical Society of America, January, 1992.

Summary:

The VAQ is a 33-item questionnaire instrument designed to measure the frequency with which older adults experience problems in everyday visual activities. Several domains are addressed by the VAQ, including color discrimination, glare disability, light/dark adaptation, acuity/spatial vision, depth perception, peripheral vision, visual search, and visual processing speed. It takes about 7 to 10 minutes to complete.

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Publications using the VAQ:

Janz, N.K., Wren, P.A., Lichter, P.R., Musch,D. C., Gillespie, B.W., Guire, K.E., Mills, R.P. and the CIGTS Study Group. (2001) The collaborative initial glaucoma treatment study: Interim quality of life findings after initial medical or surgical treatment of glaucoma. Ophthalmology. 108: 1954-1965.

Mangione, C.M., Lee, P.P., Pitts, J., Gutierrez, P., Berry, S., Hays, R.D., NEI-VFQ Field Test Investigators. (1998) Psychometric properties of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ). Archives of Ophthalmology 116: 1496-1504.

Mangione, C.M., Lee, P.P., Gutierrez, P.,, Spritzer, K., Berry, S., Hays, R.D., NEI-VFQ Field Test Investigators. (2001) Development of the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Functional Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ-25). Archives of Ophthalmology 119: 1050-1058.

Brabyn, J., Schneck, M., Haegerstrom-Portnoy, G., Lott, L. (2001). The Smith-Kettlewell Institute (SKI) longitudinal study of vision function and its impact among the elderly: an overview. Optometry and Vision Science 78: 264-269.