Quality of Life and Visual impairment
Health psychology: A portfolio of work and practice including: addiction; stigma and quality of life; and, visual impairment
... the visual impairment increases, QoL decreases accordingly (Chia, 2004; McKean-Cowdin, Varma, Wu, Hays, & Azen, 2007; Varma, Wu, Chong, Azen, & Hays, ...reduced visual functioning relating to ...
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Depression in the elderly with visual impairment and its association with quality of life
... were visual conditions such as “visual impairment”, “macular degeneration”, or “glaucoma” asso- ciated with depression terms such as “depressive disorder” or “depressive symptoms” and QOL terms such ...
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Quality of life in patients with visual impairment in Ibadan: a clinical study in primary care
... Background: Visual function is important for optimal orientation in functional and social life, and has an effect on physical and emotional ...well-being. Visual impairment, therefore, leads ...
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The effect of visual support strategies on the quality of life of children with cerebral palsy and cerebral visual impairment/perceptual visual dysfunction in Nigeria: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Cerebral visual impairment (CVI), the most common form of visual impairment in CP [17, 18], refers to loss of visual function from lesions in pathways from the lat- eral geniculate body ...
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Overview of Quality of Life Research in Older People with Visual Impairment
... having visual acuity lower than 6/18) around the world ...of visual impairment cases will roughly be doubled worldwide by the year 2020 ...of visual impairment (<6/18) in at least ...
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Association between Rehabilitation Needs and Quality of Life of the Elderly Patients with Visual Impairment
... the quality of life and visual rehabilitation needs among elderly people with visual ...using visual rehabilitation services on the quality of life among patients with ...
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Reduced health-related quality of life among Japanese college students with visual impairment
... long-term visual information loss such as that seen in congenitally blind adults cannot be substituted by other sensory inputs necessary to stabilize the body, such as the vestibular sys- tem ...
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Psycho social impact of visual impairment on health related quality of life among nursing home residents
... subjective quality of vision regardless of the presence of other ocu- lar ...and visual function- ing ...is life-enhancing and improves the ...
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Impact of blindness, visual impairment and cataract surgery on quality of life and visual functioning among adults aged 40 years and above in Sri Lanka
... related visual impairment, which probably reflects suboptimal outcomes after cataract surgery [15] also for the one eye operated participants it could be some of them have cataract or other eye problem in ...
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The effect of visual impairment on quality of life of children aged 3-16 years
... The effect of age on QoL in childhood VI is very important. In this study, older children with VI had poorer total QoL scores than their younger counterparts, and there was no significant difference in VA in either group. ...
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Assessment of quality of life in patients with visual impairments using a new visual function questionnaire: the VFQ-J11
... of visual impairment were age-related macular degeneration (53 patients), dia- betic retinopathy (34), glaucoma (33), corneal diseases (21), retinitis pigmentosa (14), and degenerative myopia ...
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Analysis of visual function and quality of life in patients with uveitis
... Uveitis,an inflammatory disease of the uveal tract(iris, ciliarybody, choroid) of the eye. Uveitis are vision threatening condition which are relatively under appreciated by the general practioniares and comprehensive ...
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Visual Impairment and Educational Attainment
... with visual impairment and other students emerge before entering post-primary ...of visual impairments is vital, given that eye problems may impede ...with visual impairment leads to ...
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What explains health in persons with visual impairment?
... Visual impairment (VI) is defined as blindness or low vision [1] and is associated with important limitations in function- ing ...health-related quality of life have consistently been reported ...
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Visual impairment is one of the most significant public
... reduce visual impairment significantly and potentially improve quality of life in this fastest growing seg- ment of the ...increased life expectancy of the ...
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What is the global burden of visual impairment?
... the visual impairment defi- nitions are currently based on distance visual ...on quality of life due to visual impair- ment caused by uncorrected refractive error that is associ- ...
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Perceptions of the impact of disability and impairment on health, quality of life and capability
... and quality of life outcome measures, including the EuroQoL 5-Dimension 3-Level (EQ-5D-3L) questionnaire and Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-VAS) [5] and the ICEpop CAPability measure for Older people ...
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An assessment of validity and responsiveness of generic measures of health-related quality of life in hearing impairment
... VAS Visual Analogue Scale, AHL average of pure-tone air-conduction thresholds at the frequencies ...euroqol Visual Analogue Scale, HHDI Hearing Handicap and Disability Index, ADPI Audiological Disabilities ...
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What is the relevance of quality of life assessment for patients with attention impairment?
... Attention performance was measured using two tests: the French version of the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) [15] and the attention/concentration subscale of the French version of the Wechsler Memory Scale ...
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Age Related Visual Impairment in the Elderly
... The human crystalline lens is naturally clear and pliable. However, when the lens ages, it loses its clarity as well as pliability. Several factors have been associated with development of cataract as shown in Table II. ...
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