COVID-19流行病对视力障碍者的影响
Shiney Sebastian1, Urvashni Nirghin1, Nishanee Rampersad1
1Discipline of Optometry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Clinical & experimental optometry
|June 2, 2025
概括
在全球范围内,COVID-19大流行加剧了视力障碍患者的挑战,影响了他们的独立性和日常生活. 本次审查强调迫切需要加强支持和政策干预,以改善他们的生活质量.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 眼科医生 眼科 眼科
- 关于残疾人的研究.
背景情况:
- 全球约有11亿人患有视力障碍,每天面临重大挑战.
- 在全球范围内,COVID-19大流行带来了前所未有的干扰和卫生措施.
- 视力受损的个体经常面临复杂的困难,可能会因疫情而加剧.
研究的目的:
- 对COVID-19大流行对视力障碍患者的影响进行全球范围审查.
- 综合现有关于这一群体在疫情期间面临的挑战和经验的研究.
- 确定需要政策制定者和利益相关方关注的关键主题和领域.
主要方法:
- 为了进行范围审查,Arksey和O'Malley采用了一个五步框架.
- 在九个电子数据库中进行了全面的文献搜索.
- 来自49篇符合条件的文章 (2019年12月至2022年10月) 的数据被三个审稿人选和分析.
主要成果:
- 随着COVID-19的流行,视力受损者面临的现有挑战显著恶化.
- 主要影响领域包括心理社会福祉,获取信息和技术,医疗保健,教育和经济稳定.
- 独立和日常生活特别受到影响,这凸显了大流行病的有害影响.
结论:
- 疫情加剧了视力障碍患者所面临的困难,损害了他们的自主权.
- 迫切需要加大政府和利益相关者的努力,以减轻这些挑战.
- 解决这些问题对于改善视力受损人口的整体生活质量至关重要.
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