purpose: to determine the prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision in yazd provice in 2008. methods: a population-based cross-sectional study was performed on inhabitants of in yazd province in 2008. using multistage cluster sampling, sample size was calculated based on the distribution of the total population of yazd province derived from national census and estimated rates of blindne...

For this issue on low vision, the Community Eye Health Journal contacted low vision practitioners in India, Tanzania, Nepal, and Peru to help gather the views of eighteen people attending their low vision clinics. The people varied in age from 14 to 81, and suffered from a range of vision problems including nystagmus, retinitis pigmentosa, diabetic retinopathy, and bilateral aphakia. The interv...

purpose: to determine the prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision in khoozestan province in 2006. methods: this population-based cross-sectional study included all residents of khoozestan province during 2006. the study was designed according to world health organization recommendations. sample size was calculated based on the distribution of the population of khoozestan according to ...

to identify and describe factors relating to quality of life (qol) for subjects with low vision and blindness in iran's sistan-baluchestan province, this research designed. this cross sectional study was done on subjects with vision disability who randomly selected and covered by the zahedan welfare organization, zahedan, iran. evaluations were made for the following factors related to visual i...

Despite all the treatments, operations, and medication at our disposal, there is still a significant number of people whose sight we cannot fully restore. What happens to these patients once they leave our care? Without the necessary support, advice, and low vision devices, their remaining vision will not be very good; this can make life a struggle. Support may be difficult to find, as low visi...