Performance of the Veterans Affairs Low Vision Visual Functioning Questionnaire

Author:

Szlyk Janet P.1,Stelmack Joan2,Massof Robert W.3,Stelmack Thomas R.4,Demers-Turco Paulette5,Williams R. Tracy6,Wright Benjamin D.7

Affiliation:

1. VA Chicago Health Care System, West Side Division, 820 South Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612; Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veteran Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420; and associate professor and director, Low Vision Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1855 West Taylor Street, MIC 648, Chicago, IL 60612

2. Blind Rehabilitation Service, Edward Hines Veterans Hospital, Building 13, Hines, IL 60141

3. Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287

4. VICTORS, VA Chicago Health Care System, West Side Division, 820 South Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612; and Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612

5. Clinical instructor, Vision Rehabilitation Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, CIO Faculty Services, Boston, MA 02114

6. Low vision rehabilitation doctor, Lois and Edwin Deicke Center for Vision Rehabilitation, Wheaton, IL 60187, and clinical assistant professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Loyola University School of Medicine, 2160 South First Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153

7. Department of Education, University of Chicago, 5835 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument that would be sensitive to the visual difficulties of persons with low vision and that could be used to evaluate outcomes and plan vision rehabilitation services. Toward that end, the Veterans Affairs Low Vision Visual Functioning Questionnaire was administered to 117 participants in rehabilitation programs in Veterans Affairs medical centers and in the private sector. The results demonstrate that the questionnaire is an effective instrument for measuring vision difficulties in persons who receive low-vision rehabilitation.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Rehabilitation,Ophthalmology

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