ArticleJournal of current ophthalmology2016
Outdoor difficulties experienced by a group of visually impaired Iranian people.
Article in Journal of current ophthalmology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Independent pathfinding with collision avoidance for visually impaired individuals.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Low Vision Rehabilitation in a Family Affected by Peters' Anomaly Syndrome.Clinical optometry · 2025Article
- Social Understanding beyond the Familiar: Disparity in Visual Abilities Does Not Impede Empathy and Theory of Mind.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- An Exploratory Assessment of Self-Reported Satisfaction with Infrastructure and Out-of-Home Activities for People with Vision Impairments.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- "You Feel a Sense of Accomplishment": Outdoor Adventure Experiences of Youths with Visual Impairments during a One-Week Sports Camp.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
proposeA qualitative approach using semi-structured individual interviews was used to elicit common outdoor difficulties in individuals with visual impairment.
methodsInterviews were recorded and then transcribed verbatim into text for thematic analysis. Twenty legally-blind individuals aged 34.25 ± 2.41 years with different etiologies were included in this study.
resultsAll participants had experienced some sort of difficulty in outdoor environments. The most important problems as perceived by the participants are installation of tactile ground surface indicators, unsafe sidewalks, existence of obstacles on sidewalks, difficulty reading bus numbers, disorientation, fear of falling, recognition of faces, inability to read street names, the presence of spaces between platforms and buses, walking into glass doors, crossing streets, and the risk of Arial barriers.
conclusionsAs a visually impaired person might say, sidewalks can be the most dangerous of places. Appropriate urban modification can be very beneficial.
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