Volume 4 - Nº 1
- Editorial
- Interdisciplinaridade no ensino médico
- Da história de Maria à memória de um encontro
- Sivik Psychosomaticism test and test of Operational Style. Construct validity: relationship with a Swedish Mood Adjective Check List – MACL
- Vision-targeted quality of life under different degrees of visual impairment
- The psychoanalytic voyage of a breast-cancer patient
- Emotional inhibition and physical health: fact or fiction?
- Attachment representation and affect regulation. Current findings of attachment research and their relevance for psychosomatic medicine
- response to Dr. Elizabeth Loftus' presentation on false memories and false beliefs – with particular reference to her study on dream interpretation
- The psychological interpretation of clinical pathology in pregnancy: a continuity hypothesis
- Psychological variables in pregnancy: does age matter? An exploratory study
- Application of narrative therapy to anorexia nervosa: a study case
- Evaluation of psychoneuroimmunological interactions in HIV infected patients
- Knowing the amygdala: its contribution to psychiatric disorders
- Recensão de Livros
- Publicações Recebidas na Redacção
- Reuniões Científicas • Calendário
Vision-targeted quality of life under different degrees of visual impairment
Gabriele Helga Franke, Joachim Esser, Jens Reimer, Nicole Maehner
To determine differences of vision-targeted quality of life (QOL) under different degrees of visual impairment using the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ) in a German sample of 241 consecutive patients. Patients with severe visual impairment and partly patients with moderate visual impairment suffered the most from a decrease in vision-targeted QOL. We assume that the NEI-VFQ is a very useful and reliable psychodiagnostic inventory assessing vision-specific QOL and we suggest the use of this instrument in future studies.
