Evaluation of vision-related quality of life in individuals with vision loss

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Gül Ulay and Bilgi Gülseven Karabacak, “Evaluation of vision-related quality of life in individuals with vision loss”, ijmhs, vol. 12, no. 05, pp. 1910–1919, May 2022.
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Abstract

The research was carried out as prospective cross-sectional and descriptive in order to evaluate the quality of life and affecting factors related to vision in individuals with vision loss in various dimensions. The population of the study consisted of all patients (308) with vision loss who were hospitalized in the eye service of a training and research hospital affiliated to the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey between 03.03.2011 and 03.06.2011, and the sample consisted of 247 patients who met the sampling criteria and agreed to participate in the study. The Patient Identification Form and the National Institute of Eye Health Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ 25) were used for data collection.In data analysis; frequency, percentile, mean, standard deviation, Kolmogorov-Smirnov distribution test, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used. As a result of the research; The Cronbach's Alpha value of the NEI-VFQ 25 was found to be reliable as 0.97. Considering that the mean scores of the patients from the subscales of the NEIVFQ 25 ranged between 38.77±15.43-76.64±30.47, the mean total score was 56.72±21.59, and the highest possible score was 100, it was determined that their visual-related quality of life was low. It has been determined that the quality of life related to vision is lower in female gender and individuals with a high degree of vision loss in the well-sighted eye.

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