Visually Impaired Persons - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

How the blind cope with problems of medicine utilization: a study in Bangkok, Thailand.

30 Jul 2009 PURPOSE: This project is aimed at studying medicine utilization among blind people in Bangkok, Thailand. METHODS: The study was designed as a cross-sectional descriptive research. The study group comprised visually impaired persons, aged at least 18 ... Read more...

Psychosocial adaptation status and health-related quality of life among older Chinese adults with visual disorders.

26 Jun 2009 PURPOSE: To examine the association of psychosocial adaptation status with vision-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and the role of psychosocial adaptation in the linkage between visual impairment and vision-specific HRQOL outcomes ... Read more...

Growing up blind does not change the neural bases of Theory of Mind.

22 Jun 2009 Humans reason about the mental states of others; this capacity is called Theory of Mind (ToM). In typically developing adults, ToM is supported by a consistent group of brain regions: the bilateral temporoparietal junction (TPJ), medial prefrontal ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Visually Impaired Persons - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• How the blind cope with problems of medicine utilization: a study in Bangkok, Thailand. 30 Jul 2009
• Psychosocial adaptation status and health-related quality of life among older Chinese adults with visual disorders. 26 Jun 2009
• Growing up blind does not change the neural bases of Theory of Mind. 22 Jun 2009
• The impact of corrected and uncorrected refractive error on visual functioning: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 30 May 2009
• Personal and social resources and adaptation to chronic vision impairment over time. 29 Apr 2009
• "Talk to me--I'm human": the story of a girl, her personhood, and the failures of health care. 24 Mar 2009
• Correctable visual impairment and its impact on quality of life in a marginalized Canadian neighbourhood. 30 Jan 2009
• Food experiences and eating patterns of visually impaired and blind people. 30 Dec 2008
• Spontaneous facial expressions of emotion of congenitally and noncongenitally blind individuals. 30 Dec 2008
• Family caregiver social problem-solving abilities and adjustment to caring for a relative with vision loss. 3 Dec 2008
• Visual impairment and its impact on health-related quality of life in adolescents. 2 Dec 2008
• Deafblindness, ontological security, and social recognition. 30 Oct 2008
• Social networks and health-related quality of life among Chinese older adults with vision impairment. 29 Sep 2008
• [Individual differences in sense of direction and psychological stress associated with mobility in visually impaired people] 30 Jul 2008
• Vision and quality of life: development of methods for the VisQoL vision-related utility instrument. 29 Jun 2008
• Moving toward scientific measurements of quality of life. 29 Jun 2008
• Knowledge and beliefs associated with refractive errors and undercorrection: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 18 Jun 2008
• Development and validation of a vision-specific quality-of-life questionnaire for Timor-Leste. 21 May 2008
• Impact of self-reported visual impairment on quality of life in the Ibadan study of ageing. 20 Feb 2008
• Location of the auditory egocentre in the blind and normally sighted. 30 Dec 2007

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Technical information about 'Visually Impaired Persons'

Definition: Persons with loss of vision such that there is an impact on activities of daily living.

Descriptor UI: D019987

Alternative terms: Visually Impaired Persons; Impaired Person, Visually; Impaired Persons, Visually; Person, Visually Impaired; Persons, Visually Impaired; Visually Impaired Person; Blind Persons; Blind Person; Person, Blind; Persons, Blind;

Related Mesh Headings: Blindness; Deaf-Blind Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; rehabilitation;

Tree Number: M01.150.850;

History Note: 98