The quantification of vision impairments dates to the mid-nineteenth century with standardization of visual acuity and visual field measures in the eye clinic. Attempts to quantify the impact of vision impairments on patients’ lives did not receive clinical attention until the close of the twentieth century. Although formal psychometric theories and measurement instruments were well developed and commonplace in educational testing, as well as in various areas in psychology and rehabilitation medicine, the late start applying them to clinical vision research created a vacuum that invited poorly developed and poorly functioning instruments and analytic methods. Although this research is still burdened with legacy instruments, mandates by regulatory agencies to include the patients’ perspectives and preferences in the evaluation of clinical outcomes have stimulated the development and validation of self-report instruments grounded in modern psychometric theory and methods. Here I review the progress and accomplishments of applying modern psychometrics to clinical vision research.

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患者报告的视力障碍和低视力康复对日常生活功能影响的测量

视力障碍的量化可以追溯到十九世纪中叶，随着眼科诊所视力和视野测量的标准化。直到二十世纪末，量化视力障碍对患者生活影响的尝试才得到临床关注。尽管正式的心理测量理论和测量仪器在教育测试以及心理学和康复医学的各个领域都得到了很好的发展和普遍使用，但较晚开始将它们应用于临床视觉研究造成了一个真空，导致了不发达和功能不良的仪器和分析的出现。方法。尽管这项研究仍然背负着遗留工具的重担，但监管机构要求将患者的观点和偏好纳入临床结果的评估，这刺激了基于现代心理测量理论和方法的自我报告工具的开发和验证。这里我回顾一下现代心理测量学应用于临床视觉研究的进展和成就。