The development of the Melbourne low-vision ADL index: A measure of vision disability

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1215-1225

  Haymes, S A ^a   Johnston, A W ^a   Heyes, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CARE; STANDARDIZATION; VISION TEST; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VICTORIA; VISION TESTS; VISION, LOW;

EID: 0035028969     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Scientific and clinical problems in indexes of functional disability
2. Instruments for the functional assessment of older patients
3. Visual disability inventory: Documenting functional impairment caused by cataract
4. Development of the "Activities of Daily Vision Scale"
5. An index of functional impairment in patients with cataract
6. An instrument for assessment of subjective visual disability in cataract patients
7. The performance of older people on everyday visual tasks
8. Visual impairment and disability in older adults
9. Measuring small gains using the ICIDH severity of disability scale: Assessment practice among older people who are blind
10. Contrast sensitivity and visual disability in chronic simple glaucoma
11. Sell-report in functional, assessment of low vision
12. Relationship between difficulty in performing daily activities and clinical measures of visual function in patients with retinitis pigmentosa
13. Preliminary examination of the reliability and clinical state of a measure of low vision patient functional status
14. Assessment of functional vision performance: A new test for patients with low vision
15. A vision specific functional index for use in patiens with age related macular degeneration
16. Functional vision in patients with neovascular maculopathy and poor visual acuity
17. Assessment of visual function in patients with age-related macular degeneration and low visual acuity
18. Comparing tests of visual function in cataract with the patient's perceived visual disability
19. Effect of a cataract simulation on clinical and real world vision
20. Studies of illness in the aged: The index of ADL: A standardised measure of biological and psychosocial function
21. Functional evaluation: The Barthel Index
22. The performance test of activities of daily living
23. Self-care skills: Behavioural measurement with Klein-Bell ADL scale
24. The hierarchical relationship between activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living
25. The Functional Status Index: Reliability and validity of a self-report functional disability measure
26. The development of a hierarchical polychotomous ADL-IADL scale for non-institutionalised elders
27. Designing the National Resident Assessment Instrument for nursing homes
28. Physical functioning
29. Chronic conditions that lead to functional limitation in the elderly
30. Blindness and visual impairment in an American urban population
31. The Beaver Dam Eye Study: Visual acuity
32. Visual impairment in Australia: Distance visual acuity, near vision, and visual field findings of the Melbourne Visual Impairment Project
33. The implications for everyday life of incident self-reported visual decline among elderly people over age 65 living in the community
34. The relationship of vision and hearing impairment to one-year mortality and functional decline
35. Physical performance measures in aging research
36. Interior lighting, 1: General principles and recommendations
37. Comparison of functional mobility performance with clinical measures in simulated retinitis pigmentosa
38. New design principles for visual acuity letter charts
39. On the statistical reliability of letter-chart visual acuity measurements
40. Science and skills in low vision for the practitioner
41. Combining activities of daily living with instrumental activities of daily living to measure functional disability
42. A systems model for low vision rehabilitation, II: Measurement of vision disabilities
43. Perceived visual ability for independent mobility in persons with retinitis pigmentosa
44. Difficulty in performing everyday activities in patients with juvenile macular dystrophies: Comparison with patients with retinitis pigmentosa
45. Comparison of subjective ratings of function with observed functional ability of frail older persons
46. A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: Association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission
47. Identifying the content area for the 51-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire
48. Influence of age-related maculopathy on visual functioning and health-related quality of life
49. Reproducibility and responsiveness of the VF-14
50. Projected number of Australians with visual impairment in and 2030
51. There's no place like home
52. Contrast sensitivity, acuity, and the perception of "real-world" targets
53. Image enhancement improves face recognition
54. Face recognition in age-related maculopathy
55. Help to end the food nightmare
56. Police hunt for armed robbers