Sirada Kasornsri. The relationships of vision disability and learned resourcefulness to depressive symptoms in persons with visual impairment . Master's Degree(Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2006.
The relationships of vision disability and learned resourcefulness to depressive symptoms in persons with visual impairment
Abstract:
This study was descriptive research aiming to investigate the relationships
of vision disability and learned resourcefulness to depressive symptoms in
persons with visual impairment. The sample consisted of 74 persons with visual
impairments receiving care at the Eye Clinic in The Outpatient Department, Low
Vision Clinic, and Eye Ward at Siriraj Hospital. Data were collected from January
to February 2006. The instruments were a set of interviewing-questionnaires, including
the demographic characteristic questionnaire, National Eye Institute Visual Function
Questionnaire 25, Self-Control Schedule and The Center for Epidemiologic Studies
Depression Scale. The obtained data were analyzed and calculated for descriptive
statistics, the Pearson’s Product Moment correlation coefficient and the enter type of
multiple regression analysis.
The numbers of the female (50%) and male subjects (50%) were equal.
Almost half of the sample (48.90 %) were 41 to 60 years old with the mean age of
48.23 (S.D. = 14.48). Nearly two thirds of the sample (54.10 %) were unemployed and
had no income. Approximately half of the sample (52.70 %) were diagnosed with
retinal diseases. Diabetes mellitus was the most common co-morbidity with the
frequency of 61.35 percent. Vision disability had a significantly positive
relationship to depressive symptoms at highly moderate level(r =.71; p<0.01)
and learned resourcefulness had a significantly positive relationship to
depressive symptoms at moderate level(r = -.62; p<0.01). Vision disability and
learned resourcefulness could simultaneously explain the variance of the
depressive symptoms by 61% (Adjusted R2 = .61; p<0.05 ).
Referring to these findings, it is recommended that nurses should primarily
assess depressive symptoms, learned resourcefulness, and level of vision
disability in persons with visual impairment and seek strategies for the
promotion of learned resourcefulness by providing education or skill-training skill
program for prevention and treatment of depressive symptoms, which indicate mental
health problems and poor quality of life in persons with visual impairment