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| The impact of spirituality on health-related quality of life among Chinese older adults with vision impairment | | Author(s) | C-W Wang, C L W Chan, S-M Ng |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 12, no 2, March 2008 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, March 2008 |
| Pages | pp 267-275 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Visual impairment ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Correlation ; China. |
| Annotation | A sample of 167 urban older Chinese people with visual problems were interviewed using a structured questionnaire to assess self-reported visual functioning, general health, spirituality, and both generic and vision-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Objective visual function was clinically measured by ophthalmologists in terms of distance visual acuity. This study found that spirituality was positively associated with both general physical health and general mental health, with a higher correlation with personal mental health than that with general physical health. Moreover, spirituality was associated significantly with vision-specific HRQOL, including multiple domains, and that these factors may play an important role in the process of adaptation to age-related vision loss among Chinese older people with vision impairment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080512213 A |
| Classmark | BR: EX: CC: F:59: 49: 7DC |
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