Two recent peer-reviewed papers found patients value their vision needs being met above comfort when choosing to continue multifocal contact lens (MFCLs) wear, with one of the papers also validating an easy method to more successfully predict patient satisfaction and purchase intent.
The first paper, published in Clinical Optometry, explored the intersection of subjective comfort and vision in habitual MFCL wearers when refit with daily disposable MFCLs. Fifty-eight participants first wore either a stenfilcon A multifocal or delefilcon A multifocal lens pair for two weeks before switching to the other design and material.
Satisfaction was assessed for vision and end-of-day comfort following each two-week period, as well as overall lens preference at the conclusion. Stenfilcon A (CooperVision MyDay daily disposable multifocal) showed higher statistically significant results in meeting vision needs and participant desire to wear the lens in the future. The authors also noted that while various comfort and vision metrics were intricately related, achieving visual needs were more important than comfort needs for retaining presbyopes in MFCLs.
