Childhood visual impairment is a major public health concern. The global financial burden of childhood-onset blindness greater than that adult-onset due to the longer span living. importance good vision for education and socialisation from an early age has prompted adoption screening in schools by many national eye care programmes Zimbabwe. Therefore, aim purpose this study were determine preva...

objectives: talking about needs, it means to consider the reasons of human behavior. because such behavior starts with one or several needs which will cause to develop different societies according to the degree of civilization, and also social-cultural factors treat differently with blinds, so these different circumstances can create different needs and motivation for them. methods: on this ba...

purpose: to determine the prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision in tehran province in 2005. methods: a population-based cross-sectional study was carried out involving all habitants living in tehran province in 2005. the study design was according to the world health organization recommendation methods and also a pilot study preformed among rural and urban areas of karaj. it was a m...

purpose : to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of severe visual impairment and retinopathy of prematurity (rop)-related blindness in a tertiary eye hospital in iran methods : in a cross-sectional study, clinical data of premature infants screened for rop in farabi eye hospital during 2003-2007 were reviewed. characteristics of advanced stages of rop (stage 4 or 5) were determined and comp...

purpose: to describe causes of low vision and blindness in patients referred for low vision aids to rehabilitation clinics at shahid beheshti medical university during 2005. methods: visual acuity was classified to five groups based on best-corrected visual acuity (bcva) in the better eye according to world health organization (who) criteria and by using standard snellen chart which included mi...

BACKGROUND The ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL) as a component of participation is one of the factors that contribute to quality of life. The ability to perform ADL for persons experiencing severe/profound intellectual disability (ID) may be reduced due to their cognitive and physical capacities. However, until recently, the impact of the significantly prevalent visual impair...

background : visual impairment is a very important public health problem. in iran, reports of visual impairment and blindness have been published from the urban population while the prevalence of visual impairment in the rural popu-lation has not been reported. the purpose of this study to determine the prevalence and causes of visual impairment, in a rural population in district of based on ag...

Developmental setback in children initially thought to be of normal cognitive potential is a serious complication of severe visual impairment; the prevalence, diagnostic specificity, clinical presentation, and factors that contribute to its genesis require systematic investigation. The findings are reported of a retrospective case review over a 15 year period of children attending the developme...