ArticleHealth and quality of life outcomes2014
What explains health in persons with visual impairment?
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Experts' perspectives on the impact of visual impairment and comorbid mental disorders on functioning in essential life domains.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- A qualitative description of barriers to visual rehabilitation experienced by stroke survivors with visual impairment in Alberta, Canada.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Development and Validation of a Novel Indicator of Visual Disability in the National Health and Aging Trends Study.Innovation in aging · 2021Article
- General self-efficacy in individuals with visual impairment compared with the general population.PloS one · 2021Article
- Visual Impairment Is More Common in Parkinson's Disease and Is a Risk Factor for Poor Health Outcomes.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2020Article
- Application of neural network model in assisting device fitting for low vision patients.Annals of translational medicine · 2020Article
- "Invisible" visual impairments. A qualitative study of stroke survivors` experience of vision symptoms, health services and impact of visual impairments.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Self-reported visual dysfunction in Parkinson disease: the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.European journal of neurology · 2020Article
- Stereotyping as a barrier to the social participation of older adults with low vision: a qualitative focus group study.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Blindness and Visual Impairment in the Medicare Population: Disparities and Association with Hip Fracture and Neuropsychiatric Outcomes.Ophthalmic epidemiology · 2019Article
- Medical and legal point of view for low-vision patients.Romanian journal of ophthalmologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundVisual impairment is associated with important limitations in functioning. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) relies on a globally accepted framework for classifying problems in functioning and the influence of contextual factors. Its comprehensive perspective, including biological, individual and social aspects of health, enables the ICF to describe the whole health experience of persons with visual impairment. The objectives of this study are (1) to analyze whether the ICF can be used to comprehensively describe the problems in functioning of persons with visual impairment and the environmental factors that influence their lives and (2) to select the ICF categories that best capture self-perceived health of persons with visual impairment.
methodsData from 105 persons with visual impairment were collected, including socio-demographic data, vision-related data, the Extended ICF Checklist and the visual analogue scale of the EuroQoL-5D, to assess self-perceived health. Descriptive statistics and a Group Lasso regression were performed. The main outcome measures were functioning defined as impairments in Body functions and Body structures, limitations in Activities and restrictions in Participation, influencing Environmental factors and self-perceived health.
resultsIn total, 120 ICF categories covering a broad range of Body functions, Body structures, aspects of Activities and Participation and Environmental factors were identified. Thirteen ICF categories that best capture self-perceived health were selected based on the Group Lasso regression. While Activities-and-Participation categories were selected most frequently, the greatest impact on self-perceived health was found in Body-functions categories. The ICF can be used as a framework to comprehensively describe the problems of persons with visual impairment and the Environmental factors which influence their lives.
conclusionsThere are plenty of ICF categories, Environmental-factors categories in particular, which are relevant to persons with visual impairment, but have hardly ever been taken into consideration in literature and visual impairment-specific patient-reported outcome measures.
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