Identifier: TDX:741
Authors:
Pallero González, Rafael
Abstract:
There are increasingly more people in the over sixty-fives age bracket and the number of over eighties is also growing. This increase is hand-in-hand with the number of people suffering age-related visual diseases. Serious visual impairments can affect the activities pursued by the individual and their participation in life events, leading to limitations in activities and restrictions in participation and, as a consequence disability and dependency. It also affects the efficacy of the strategies that are commonly used and learned over the years to deal with life's varying requirements.The process by which a person relearns or changes such habitual strategies to solve the requirements posed by life in all fields, including the emotional, is known as the adjustment process to visual disability. This thesis presents the proposal of a structural model of the adjustment process to visual disability in the over-65s, with visual impairment of greater than 90% and not suffering any other relevant pathology other than the visual one.The protocol for data collection, which included several scales (NAS, Nottingham Adjustment Scale, Dodds, 2006; EBS escala de bienestar subjetivo or subjective welfare scale, Pallero and Ferrando, 2003; GDS, geriatric depression scale by Brink and Yesavage, 1982, in the Spanish adaptation by Izal and Montorio, 1996 and the AVLS, or age-related vision loss scale by Horowitz and Reinhardt, 2006, whose adaptation to the Spanish population forms part of the thesis) was applied to a sample of 335 people.The Spanish adaptation of the AVL scale maintains the same number of items, 24, and of factors, 1, of the original version. Its reliability is 0.8 (Cronbach's alpha). It was done following the tests translation and adaptation of Muñiz and Hambleton's (1996
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