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| Social networks and health-related quality of life among Chinese older adults with vision impairment | | Author(s) | Chong-Wen Wang, Cecilia L W Chan, Andy H Y Ho |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 20, no 7, October 2008 |
| Pages | pp 804-823 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com |
| Keywords | Visual impairment ; Personal relationships ; Social contacts ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Correlation ; China. |
| Annotation | 167 mainland China urban older adults with visual problems were interviewed using a structured questionnaire to assess self-reported visual functioning, general health, social networks and vision-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Objective visual function was clinically measured by ophthalmologists in terms of distance visual acuity. Findings indicate that age-related vision loss is significantly associated with older people's social networks. Multiple regression analyses show that social networks are mildly related to vision-specific HRQOL, even after controlling for other variables, and that friendship network was a significant predictor, independent of family network, of vision-specific HRQOL. Previous studies have emphasised the importance of family network, whereas this study finds that friendship network correlates more strongly with HRQOL measures in Chinese visually impaired older people. This suggests a need to expand intervention beyond the family system. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090903203 A |
| Classmark | BR: DS: TOA: CC: F:59: 49: 7DC |
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