Psychosocial impacts of vison loss
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 24-03-16 16:45
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- Impact of a visual impairment
- Factors that affect the adjustment process (Spec let) Scheiman et al
- Self concept
- Personality
- Introverted
- keep to them-self
- might find it difficult to ask people to adapt to their disability
- Introverted
- Life events
- Holmes and Rache life scale
- correlation between major life events and stress related illness
- already in a poor state of mind
- ie break down of a relationship
- less support
- Holmes and Rache life scale
- Culture and family
- family may have a history of sight loss
- be able to prepare them
- religion
- may look as illness as a punishment from god
- stigmatisim
- religion could provide support
- may look as illness as a punishment from god
- family might not want to commit to being carers for life
- family may have a history of sight loss
- Stage of life
- children better at adapting
- less conscious of negative effects
- teens
- more aware of self image
- adults
- more responsibility
- adapted to previous quality of life
- elderly
- more reliant on others
- desperate to hang onto independence
- children better at adapting
- Psychosocial impact Nyman et al, 2010
- differences between working age and elderly
- working age are exposed to condition for longer
- different causes
- younger more likely to be conditions such as retinopathy
- multiple implications
- older more like conditions such as makuladegeneration
- younger more likely to be conditions such as retinopathy
- limitations
- range of outcome measures used
- reduces external reliability
- range of outcome measures used
- elderly
- large case study
- 174 papers
- 60 year old and above
- difficult to define elderly
- depression
- majority showed positive correlation
- large range 3-43%
- reduced validity
- large range 3-43%
- deterministic
- majority showed positive correlation
- Quality of life
- peers have low quality of life
- mixed results
- social functioning
- lower on average than to peers
- could relate to anxiety
- peers may of had low average anyway
- lower on average than to peers
- Anxiety
- 5 studies
- similar to controls
- different to adult
- large case study
- independant measure design
- matched paris would be better
- differences between working age and elderly
- Factors that affect the adjustment process (Spec let) Scheiman et al
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