Barriers to Employment: A Survey of Employed Persons who are Visually Impaired

Crudden, Adele; McBroom, Lynn W.

doi:10.1177/0145482x9909300602

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“…The range of employment related barriers or challenges that participants reported are consistent with those found in previous studies [2][3][4]. These include the following: restricted access to adapted materials and equipment, and to information; negative attitude of employers or potential employers; a need for tolerance of others, public awareness; improved access to transportation; personal problems; and job requirements.…”

Section: Vocational Domainsupporting

confidence: 82%

The status of Canadian youth who are blind or visually impaired: A study of lifestyles, quality of life and employment

Gold

Shaw

Wolffe

2005

International Congress Series

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Section: Vocational Domainsupporting

confidence: 82%

The status of Canadian youth who are blind or visually impaired: A study of lifestyles, quality of life and employment

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Shaw

Wolffe

2005

International Congress Series

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“…[1][2][3] Knowledge about children's own perceptions of the impact of living with VI, in terms of day-to-day functioning and quality of life (QoL) is limited, due to the paucity of vision-specific patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for this population.…”

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confidence: 99%

Do visually impaired children and their parents agree on the child's vision-related quality of life and functional vision?

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AimsTo investigate agreement between children with visual impairment (VI) and their parents on their ratings of the child's vision-related quality of life (VQoL) and functional vision (FV) using two novel self-report patient-reported outcome measures developed for this population.Methods99 children aged 10–15 years (mean age=12.2, SD=1.9) with VI (best corrected acuity (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) 0.50 or worse in better eye) and their parents participated in a national postal survey, completing the child and proxy versions of our novel instruments assessing VQoL and FV of children with VI—the vision-related quality of life instrument for children and young people (VQoL_CYP) and the functional vision questionnaire for children and young people (FVQ_CYP), respectively. Parent-child agreement was investigated using the Bland-Altman (BA) method. Variation across key sociodemographic and clinical characteristics was examined using the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient.ResultsAverage parental ratings of their child's VQoL and FV were significantly lower than the children's own ratings, but the range of disagreement was wide, with parents both overestimating and underestimating their child's VQoL (mean score difference=5.7, BA limits of agreement (LOA): lower −22.10 (CI 95% −24.61 to 19.59) and upper 33.50 (CI 95% 30.99 to 36.01)), but more consistently underestimating the child's FV (mean score difference=−11.8, BA LOA: lower −39.60 (CI 95% −42.12 to 37.08) and upper 16 (CI 95% 13.48 to 18.52)). There was variation in agreement by some child characteristics, including vision level, time of onset and course of VI progression.ConclusionsVisually impaired children and their parents perceive the broader impact of living with VI very differently. There is value in routine capture of information independently from children and their parents for comprehensively gauging the impact of childhood VI and tailoring appropriate interventions.

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“…In the countries of high economic development, the quality of post-hospitalization care and financial support available for people with poor vision may considerably affect the perceived quality of life and level of satisfaction with treatment (Crabtree et al 1999;Crudden and McBroom 1999;Klein et al 1994;Odberg et al 2001). In undeveloped countries or in national groups of lower socio-economic status the situation is different-cataract surgery is often performed when a patient suffers from almost complete loss of vision (Fletcher et al 1997;He et al 1999;Malik et al 2003;Pager 2004;Pager et al 2004;Pokharel et al 1998;Zhao et al 1998).…”

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Quality of Life Before and After Cataract Surgery: Research in a Sample of Polish Patients

Oleś

2011

Applied Research Quality Life

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The goal of this paper is to present possible change in quality of life (QoL) in older sample of people with vision disturbances. The patients were investigated twice: before (N=193) and 4 month after the cataract surgery (N=69), by means of the scale for vision functioning, and the Life Quality Questionnaire (Schalock & Keith, 1993) extend with the items measuring health related quality of life (HRQoL). Two problems were formulated: To what extent are visual defects associated with the decreased subjective QoL? What changes are observed in perceived QoL during the period of treatment of visual defects? The patients reported significant increase of HRQoL, however they did not report similar increase of a general QoL. Few reasons are considered: overlapping of the content of visual function scales and HRQoL and different indices of a general QoL and HRQoL, lack of a proper postoperative care, low socio-economic status of the participants, and too high expectation concerning better functioning after the surgery.

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Barriers to Employment: A Survey of Employed Persons who are Visually Impaired

Cited by 97 publications

References 6 publications

The status of Canadian youth who are blind or visually impaired: A study of lifestyles, quality of life and employment

The status of Canadian youth who are blind or visually impaired: A study of lifestyles, quality of life and employment

Do visually impaired children and their parents agree on the child's vision-related quality of life and functional vision?

Quality of Life Before and After Cataract Surgery: Research in a Sample of Polish Patients

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