Prospective study correlates personality traits with satisfaction and visual quality in patients post-surgery, suggesting targeted counseling may improve outcomes.
Key Points
To investigate the relationship between personality traits and postoperative satisfaction and visual quality in patients undergoing refractive surgery.
Conducted a prospective interventional study with 46 patients undergoing corneal refractive surgeries.
Utilized the Big Five Inventory questionnaire to evaluate personality traits preoperatively.
Administered three quality of life questionnaires preoperatively and at 3 months to measure outcomes.
Agreeableness was the most common personality trait (36.90%), while neuroticism was the least common (8.70%).
Significant improvements were noted in mean QIRC and QLESQ scores, and QoV scores for visual distortions after 3 months.
Conscientiousness and extraversion traits correlated positively with satisfaction scores, while neuroticism had negative correlations.