Table 2 General concepts and subconcepts of the final questionnaire
General concepts | Subconcepts | Item contents |
|---|---|---|
Patient characteristics | Gender | Patient sex |
Age | Patient age | |
Marital status | Patient alone or in couple | |
Level of education | Patient level of education | |
Professional activities | Professional status | |
Number of working hours | ||
Daytime availability | Free time during the day to take drops | |
Travel (Professional/Personal) | Frequency of night spent away from home | |
Frequency of long journeys | ||
Ease of prescription renewal when away | ||
Family environment | Self-administering or external help | |
Previous experience with IOP or POAG in family or friends | ||
Physical difficulties | Physical difficulties such as shaking, arthritis... | |
Apprehension | Discomfort | |
Worries putting things in eyes | ||
Blink reflex | ||
Treatment characteristics | Intake frequency | Number of times a day the drops are taken |
Time of the intake | Time of the day the treatment is taken | |
Multiplicity of treatment | Number of different ophthalmic drops | |
Side-effects | Presence of side-effects | |
Patient-clinician relationship | Visit frequency to the clinician | Number of visits per year |
Satisfaction with visit frequency | Satisfaction with the delay between two visits | |
Training | Training in drop instillation | |
Clinician care | Satisfaction about clinician care | |
Feedback and motivation | Relation between feedback and motivation | |
Follow-up and motivation | Relation between clinician follow-up and motivation | |
Patient experience | Treatment as a burden | Burden of the treatment |
Fear regarding the disease | Fear of the disease evolution | |
Diificulty in taking drops | Satisfaction about the administration route | |
Thinking constantly about the disease | Frequency of thinking about disease consequences | |
Feeling about lifelong treatment | Perception as a constraint | |
Confidence in the treatment | Confidence in the effectiveness of the treatment | |
Forgetting the treatment | Frequency treatment is forgotten | |
Patient-treatment interaction | Administration route | Ease of medication use |
Convenience of the delivery system in bottle opening | ||
Convenience of the delivery system in drop dosing | ||
Convenience of the delivery system in checking quantity of drops left in bottle | ||
Storage of eye drops in good conditions | ||
Routine | Set up of routine for remembering to take drops | |
Daytime intake | ||
Break in the treatment | Voluntary treatment break | |
Self-assessment compliance | Compliance with treatment over a given period | |
Patient knowledge | Information received on disease and treatment | Satisfaction about the quantity of information given on the treatment |
Satisfaction about the quantity of information given on the disease | ||
Frequency of information given by clinician to patient about eye-pressure level | ||
Frequency of information given by clinician to patient about visual field |