Utilising Narrative Medicine to Identify Key Factors Affecting Quality of Life in Dry Eye Disease: An Italian Multicentre Study

• DOI: 10.1007/s40123-024-01033-7
• Publication Date: 2024-09-28T08:02:15Z
• Authors: Pasquale Aragona; Stefano Barabino; Ertugrul Akbas; Robert Ryan; Linda Landini; Maria G. Marini; Alessandra Fiorencis; Antonietta Cappuccio; Andrea Leonardi; Antonio Vercesi; Rino Frisina; Francesco Bandello; Luigi Berchicci; Emanuela Aragona; Francesco Semeraro; Vito Romano; Igor Di Carlo; Michele Reibaldi; Andrea Ghilardi; Stefano De Cillà; Giorgio Marchini; Daniele Tognetto; Luigi Fontana; Piera Versura; Domenico D’Eliseo; Alessandro Mularoni; Carlo Cagini; Rita Mencucci; Marco Coassin; Antonio Di Zazzo; Stanislao Rizzo; Romina Fasciani; Luca Gualdi; Andrea Cusumano; Leopoldo Spadea; Emily Cantera; Vincenzo Scorcia; Giuseppe Giannaccare; Pasquale Rosa; Salvatore Troisi; Antonio Provenzano; Francesca Simonelli; Michele Marullo; Lorenza Ciracì; Ciro Costagliola; Vito Primavera; Caterina Gagliano; Antonio Pinna; Alessio Giovanni; Francesco Boscia; Aldo Gelso; Leonardo Mastropa...; Enza Bonfiglio; Maurizio Rolando; Stefano Bonini
• Keywords: Patient experience; Quality of life; Coping strategies; Ophthalmology; Coping strategies; Dry eye disease; Narrative medicine; Patient experience; Quality of life; Dry eye disease; coping strategies; dry eye disease; narrative medicine; patient experience; quality of life; RE1-994; Narrative medicine; Original Research

Despite an improved understanding of its pathogenesis, dry eye disease (DED) remains relatively underestimated and treatment challenging. A better alignment between the clinical evaluation patient self-assessment also requires capturing whole experience DED. This project aimed to unveil this through narrative medicine (NM).