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Table 4 Domain name and definition. This definition was followed while ordering references and items

From: Content development for a new item-bank for measuring multifocal contact lens performance

Domain

Definition

Cognitive issues

Problems arising from a persons’ difficulty to think, learn, remember or make decisions.

Economic issues

Economic implication for presbyopia correction selection.

Emotional well-being

Emotional and/or psychological problems that an individual might face or that are considered to be related to presbyopia.

Convenience

The quality of an individual’s comfort, time consumption, needs, desires and purposes that are compromised due to the presbyopic condition.

Ocular symptoms

Non-visual eye sensations related to ageing and presbyopia.

General symptoms

Unwanted non-ocular sensations.

Visual symptoms

Unwanted visual sensations due to the presbyopic condition or correction.

Activity limitation

Difficulties that a person might face when performing specific activities due to the presbyopic condition.