Serious Life Events in People with Visual Impairment Versus the General Population
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Visual Impairment Population
2.2. General Population
2.3. Measures
2.3.1. Background Information
2.3.2. Serious Life Events
2.4. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Sample Characteristics
3.2. Lifetime Prevalence of Serious Life Events
3.3. Supplementary Analyses
3.3.1. Fire or Explosion
3.3.2. Serious Accidents at Work, Home, or during Leisure Time
3.3.3. Sexual Assaults
3.3.4. Life-Threatening Illness or Injury
3.3.5. Severe Human Suffering
4. Discussion
4.1. Strengths and Limitations
4.2. Interpretation and Comparison with Other Studies
4.3. Implications
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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VI Male (N = 333) | GP Male (N = 834) | VI Female (N = 403) | GP Female (N = 945) | |||
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Age, mean (s.d.) Education, n (%) <11 years | 51.1 (17.0) | 55.7 (15.9) | p < 0.001 | 51.7 (17.3) | 51.0 (17.0) | p = 0.48 |
p = 0.003 | p < 0.001 | |||||
46 (13.8) | 62 (7.5) | 69 (17.1) | 79 (8.4) | |||
11–13 years ≥14 years | 124 (37.2) | 336 (40.5) | 162 (40.2) | 346 (36.7) | ||
163 (49.0) | 432 (52.0) | 172 (42.7) | 517 (54.9) | |||
Work status, n (%) Employed # Unemployed Retired | p < 0.001 | p < 0.001 | ||||
152 (45.7) | 526 (63.4) | 143 (35.5) | 641 (68.3) | |||
100 (30.0) | 60 (7.2) | 148 (36.7) | 72 (24.1) | |||
81 (24.3) | 244 (29.4) | 112 (27.8) | 28 (7.7) | |||
Marital status, n (%) Married/cohabitant | p < 0.001 | p < 0.001 | ||||
166 (49.9) | 634 (76.3) | 181 (44.9) | 647 (68.9) | |||
Unmarried § | 167 (50.1) | 197 (23.7) | 222 (55.1) | 292 (31.1) | ||
Place of residence, n (%) | p = 0.32 | p = 0.003 | ||||
Rural areas | 172 (51.7) | 399 (48.4) | 227 (56.3) | 444 (47.3) | ||
Urban areas | 161 (48.4) | 426 (51.6) | 176 (43.7) | 494 (52.7) |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleBrunes, Audun, and Trond Heir. 2021. "Serious Life Events in People with Visual Impairment Versus the General Population" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 21: 11536. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111536