Anxiety is defined as an unpleasant, diffuse and vague feeling 1 that may affect patients' quality of life. There is growing concern regarding anxiety within medicine, especiallygiven that humanization is becoming a more important issue following the large technological developments that have been seen within the health sciences. The main objective has gone beyond merely controlling the symptoms, decreasing mortality and increasing life expectancy, since the psychological aspects of health and illness are ever more greatly valued.The present study sought to assess the influence of anxiety on the quality of life of patients with cataracts acquired in the first eye after reaching the age of 50 years and who did not present any severe cognitive deficit. We evaluated 52 patients with cataracts The present study demonstrates that there is a high psychosocial burden among patients with cataracts who are assessed through the IDATE-t and WHOQOL scales. Additionally, itshows that these patients' quality of life has an inverse relationship with anxiety levels. This finding corroborates previous studies that have demonstrated low quality-of-life scores among patients with cataracts 2 and the negative impact of anxiety disorders on the quality of life of patients undergoing cataract surgery.

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