Psychological and cognitive determinants of vision function in age-related macular degeneration.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of coping strategies, depression, physical health, and cognition on National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire scores obtained at baseline in a sample of older patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) enrolled in the Improving Function in AMD Trial, a randomized controlled clinical trial that compares the efficacy of problem-solving therapy with that of supportive therapy to improve vision function in patients with AMD.

Methods

Baseline evaluation of 241 older outpatients with advanced AMD who were enrolled in a clinical trial testing the efficacy of a behavioral intervention to improve vision function. Vision function was characterized as an interval-scaled, latent variable of visual ability based on the near-vision

SUBMITTER: Rovner BW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3584644 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature