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Visual functions and disability in Iranian adults: a population-based study

BACKGROUND: Vision-related quality of life is related to severity of visual impairments and show the impact of eye diseases on daily activities. This study aims to assess visual functions and disability and its association with age, gender, education, marital status, and economic status in adults ag...

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Autores principales: Hashemi, Hassan, Mehravar, Fatemeh, Asgari, Soheila, Emamian, Mohammad Hassan, Fotouhi, Akbar
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8781046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35057773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-022-02262-9
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author Hashemi, Hassan
Mehravar, Fatemeh
Asgari, Soheila
Emamian, Mohammad Hassan
Fotouhi, Akbar
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Mehravar, Fatemeh
Asgari, Soheila
Emamian, Mohammad Hassan
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description BACKGROUND: Vision-related quality of life is related to severity of visual impairments and show the impact of eye diseases on daily activities. This study aims to assess visual functions and disability and its association with age, gender, education, marital status, and economic status in adults aged 45–69 years. METHODS: Data in this population-based study were from the second phase of the Shahroud eye cohort study and collected by using a Short-Form Visual Functioning Scale. The scores of visual function and disability were calculated based on Rasch-transformed scores of the National Eye Institute visual functioning questionnaire, where a more negative score indicates a better situation. Multiple linear regression was used to investigate the factors associated with visual functions. RESULTS: Among 4737 participants the visual function data for 4715 people were analyzed. The visual function of 75.3, 17.1 and 7.5% of participants were “ideal and good”, “moderate”, and “bad and very bad”, respectively, while 0.06% were unable for vision. The running mean of the visual function was calculated to be − 3.95 ± 0.02. The visual performance was worse in females than the males (β = 0.14, p = 0.005). Visual function improved with increasing levels of education (β = − 1.06, p < 0.001). It was worse in low-economic (β = 0.016, p = 0.005) and moderate-economic (β = 0.28, p < 0.001) participants than high-economic ones. CONCLUSION: The visual function of Iranian adults aged 45–69 years was moderate. The male gender, higher education and the higher economic status had a better visual function.
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spelling pubmed-87810462022-01-21 Visual functions and disability in Iranian adults: a population-based study Hashemi, Hassan Mehravar, Fatemeh Asgari, Soheila Emamian, Mohammad Hassan Fotouhi, Akbar BMC Ophthalmol Research BACKGROUND: Vision-related quality of life is related to severity of visual impairments and show the impact of eye diseases on daily activities. This study aims to assess visual functions and disability and its association with age, gender, education, marital status, and economic status in adults aged 45–69 years. METHODS: Data in this population-based study were from the second phase of the Shahroud eye cohort study and collected by using a Short-Form Visual Functioning Scale. The scores of visual function and disability were calculated based on Rasch-transformed scores of the National Eye Institute visual functioning questionnaire, where a more negative score indicates a better situation. Multiple linear regression was used to investigate the factors associated with visual functions. RESULTS: Among 4737 participants the visual function data for 4715 people were analyzed. The visual function of 75.3, 17.1 and 7.5% of participants were “ideal and good”, “moderate”, and “bad and very bad”, respectively, while 0.06% were unable for vision. The running mean of the visual function was calculated to be − 3.95 ± 0.02. The visual performance was worse in females than the males (β = 0.14, p = 0.005). Visual function improved with increasing levels of education (β = − 1.06, p < 0.001). It was worse in low-economic (β = 0.016, p = 0.005) and moderate-economic (β = 0.28, p < 0.001) participants than high-economic ones. CONCLUSION: The visual function of Iranian adults aged 45–69 years was moderate. The male gender, higher education and the higher economic status had a better visual function. BioMed Central 2022-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8781046/ /pubmed/35057773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-022-02262-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Hashemi, Hassan
Mehravar, Fatemeh
Asgari, Soheila
Emamian, Mohammad Hassan
Fotouhi, Akbar
Visual functions and disability in Iranian adults: a population-based study
title Visual functions and disability in Iranian adults: a population-based study
title_full Visual functions and disability in Iranian adults: a population-based study
title_fullStr Visual functions and disability in Iranian adults: a population-based study
title_full_unstemmed Visual functions and disability in Iranian adults: a population-based study
title_short Visual functions and disability in Iranian adults: a population-based study
title_sort visual functions and disability in iranian adults: a population-based study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8781046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35057773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-022-02262-9
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