Activities of daily vision scale: What do the subscales measure?

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 694-700

  Gothwal, Vijaya K ^a,b   Wright, Thomas A ^a   Lamoureux, Ecosse L ^c,d,e   Pesudovs, Konrad ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^e SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY VISION SCALE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77449140875     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3448     Document Type: Article

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