Reported psychosocial impairment because of vision loss
| All† (<6/18) (n=96) | Visual impairment and severe vision loss (<6/18–3/60) (n=47) | Blind (<3/60) (n=49) | p Value‡ | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | Mean score (SD) | n (%) | Mean score (SD) | ||||||||
| Social: | ||||||||||||
| attending ceremony | ||||||||||||
| patient | 69 (71.9) | 28 (59.6) | 1.81 (0.85) | 41 (83.7) | 2.65 (1.10) | 0.0017 | ||||||
| guardian | 72 (79.1) | 31 (70.4) | 1.89 (1.01) | 41 (87.2) | 2.61 (1.19) | 0.002 | ||||||
| agreement§ | 0.55 | 0.66 | 0.45 | |||||||||
| meeting people | ||||||||||||
| patient | 61 (63.5) | 22 (46.8) | 1.85 (1.0) | 39 (79.6) | 2.47 (1.38) | 0.008 | ||||||
| guardian | 68 (74.7) | 29 (65.9) | 1.62 (0.8) | 39 (83.0) | 2.35 (0.99) | 0.0001 | ||||||
| agreement | 0.55 | 0.66 | 0.45 | |||||||||
| Psychological: | ||||||||||||
| burden to others | ||||||||||||
| patient | 68 (70.8) | 27 (57.5) | 1.79 (0.97) | 41 (83.7) | 2.14 (1.06) | 0.1 | ||||||
| guardian | 65 (71.4) | 29 (65.9) | 1.86 (0.88) | 36 (76.6) | 2.49 (1.0) | 0.002 | ||||||
| agreement | 0.57 | 0.61 | 0.53 | |||||||||
| feeling dejected | ||||||||||||
| patient | 68 (70.8) | 29 (61.7) | 1.92 (0.93) | 39 (76.6) | 2.49 (1.10) | 0.009 | ||||||
| guardian | 39 (42.9) | 29 (65.9) | 1.81 (0.95) | 10 (21.3) | 2.10 (1.10) | 0.25 | ||||||
| agreement | 0.63 | 0.64 | 0.62 | |||||||||
| loss of confidence | ||||||||||||
| patient | 78 (81.3) | 33 (70.2) | 2.04 (0.91) | 45 (91.8) | 2.53 (0.87) | 0.008 | ||||||
| guardian | 59 (64.8) | 28 (63.6) | 1.81 (0.99) | 31 (66.0) | 1.84 (0.97) | 0.88 | ||||||
| agreement | 0.47 | 0.52 | 0.43 | |||||||||
↵Categories: defined as 1, not at all; 2, a little; 3, quite a bit; 4, a lot. †Absolute number reporting any impairment. ‡Test between vision groups; §number of patients and guardians with equal responses/total.