Access to Eye Care Before and After Vision Loss: A Qualitative Study Investigating Eye Care Among Persons Who Have Become Blind
| العنوان: | Access to Eye Care Before and After Vision Loss: A Qualitative Study Investigating Eye Care Among Persons Who Have Become Blind |
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| المؤلفون: | Tosha Zaback, Teresa Field, Joan Randall, Mitchell V. Brinks, Stephanie Lam |
| المصدر: | Qualitative report |
| بيانات النشر: | Nova Southeastern University, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Visual impairment, Specialty, Coding (therapy), Patient Perspective, Social Welfare, Blindness, Article, Grounded theory, Education, Social support, Nursing, Patient experience, medicine, medicine.symptom, Psychology, Qualitative Research, Access to Care, Qualitative research |
| الوصف: | Navigating access to eye care requires that patients recognize the need for screening and care, employ limited financial and social resources, manage complex health insurance policies, and access specialty clinical care. We investigated the experience of patients through the progression of vision loss to blindness, utilizing qualitative methods. We conducted structured telephone interviews with 28 persons with blindness throughout Oregon. Utilizing closed and open-ended questions, we explored patient experience on the events preceding avoidable blindness. Coding for emergent themes was conducted independently by two researchers using a constant comparative method. Participants described important barriers to accessing eye care: at the systems level, lack of access to providers and treatment; at the community level, available social support and services; and at the individual level, readiness to act and trust in providers. These findings suggest that important barriers to accessing preventive eye care, early diagnosis and treatment, vocational rehabilitation, and social services often occur at multiple levels. Access to eye care should be prioritized in efforts to reduce preventable visual impairment. |
| تدمد: | 2160-3715 1052-0147 |
| DOI: | 10.46743/2160-3715/2020.4180 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::e7ea6ec6aacb63c40e2cea7d24cfb5b8 https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2020.4180 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....e7ea6ec6aacb63c40e2cea7d24cfb5b8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 21603715 10520147 |
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| DOI: | 10.46743/2160-3715/2020.4180 |