Trial reportDer Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft2013
[The influence of visual rehabilitation on secondary depressive disorders due to age-related macular degeneration. A randomized controlled pilot study].
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- Pooled it
- Low vision rehabilitation for better quality of life in visually impaired adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Effects of home reading training on reading and quality of life in AMD-a randomized and controlled study.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2019Trial
- Vision-Related Patient-Reported Outcomes in Randomized Controlled Trials of Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Systematic Review.Ophthalmology science · 2026Review
- Benefits of Explorative Saccade Training in Patients with Advanced Glaucomatous Visual Field Defects-A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- [Current possibilities of visual rehabilitation].Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft · 2018Article
- [Requirements for low vision magnification aids in age-related macular degeneration: Data from the Tübingen low vision clinic (comparison of 2007-2011 with 1999-2005)].Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft · 2015Article
- Remaining visual field and preserved subjective visual functioning prevent mental distress in patients with visual field defects.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2013Article
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Abstract
backgroundAge-related macular degeneration (AMD) often leads to visual impairment, loss of reading ability, reduced quality of life and secondary depression. The present study examined if visual rehabilitation has a preventive effect on secondary depression in these patients. MATERIAL AND
methodsIn a controlled pilot study 20 patients were randomized into 2 groups whereby 9 underwent visual rehabilitation at first examination and 11 received magnifying visual aids only after 3 months. Psychosocial status was assessed by the geriatric depression scale (GDS) and the German version of the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies depression (CES-D) scale (main outcome parameter), cognitive status by the dementia detection test (DemTecT), minimental status (MMS) and quality of life by the National Eye Institute visual function questionnaire (NEI-VFQ 25). Ophthalmological examination included reading speed measurement by standardized texts (International Reading Speed Texts; IReST).
resultsParameters of the CES-D scale, DemTect and the subitem exercise of social roles of the NEI-VFQ 25 emerged in a divergent manner. Patients of the rehabilitation group became less depressive and improved in cognitive and social abilities and in the control group vice versa. The interactive effect of group and time was statistically significant for all three tests.
conclusionsVisual rehabilitation has a positive impact on depression as well as cognitive status and quality of life in patients with AMD. The effects have to be confirmed in future studies with more patients and a longer observation period.
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