Resource Tag: VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS

Purpose: To evaluate the prevalence of suicidal ideation and associated factors among older people with visual impairments attending an eye center during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients and Methods: A total of 314 older people aged 60 and above with visual impairments who attended an eye center were included in this study. This was a hospital-based […]

Relationships between reported visual impairment & suicide were examined using structural equation modelling. Data was gathered from the American annual cross-section multistage area probability surveys, 1986-1999. 200 suicides were identified. After controlling for survey design, age, sex, ethnicity, marital status, number of nonocular health conditions, & self-rated health, the direct effect of visual impairment on […]

Both fictional & factual discourses have situated visual impairment in a causal relationship with suicide. This article compares samples of these discourses in order to suggested the fiction may have some bearing on the facts. This alternative explanation becomes all the more thought-provoking when it is considered that not only visual impairment but also visual […]

This article presents the case study of a schizophrenic man who suffered a psychotic episode & attempted suicide. The injuries he sustained from his attempt were consistent with Brown-SŽquard syndrom & included blindness. Within a year the patient completed suicide during a period of noncompliance with antipsychotic medication. (4 refs)

Psychosocial readjustment often follows sight loss, but in some cases it does not & suicide may occur. Together with an extensive literature review, the authors present cases from their psychological autopsy study database. When compared with a hearing-impaired group, impaired sight alone can acutely affect otherwise psychologically healthy individuals. Opthamologists need to develop closer collaboration […]

This article describes a 39 year-old man suffering from diabetes who had become blind & a double amputee as a result of its complications. The patient was depressed & expressed suicidal ideation. The patient was treated through thermal biofeedback, which teaches patients how to increase their blood flow through machinery & imagery. The patient was […]

This article describes the physician-patient relationship in the case of a 70-year-old man in a nursing home with 2 large ripe cataracts who initially had refused to let anyone work onhis eyes, saying that maybe his blindness was God’s plan. Finally, he agreed to a cataract operation. As his vision returned he became argumentative & […]

This is a case report of a 30 year old man who presented with depression. During psychotherapy, he lost vision in one eye. When the vision in his remaining eye was also threatened he committed suicide. The discussion points out that the subject of rehabilitation should be introduced before the onset of blindness so that […]

Reactions of previously blind persons to the restoration of sight are presented in this letter to the editor, contained in the JAMA journal.(NBB)

The paper discusses the hypothesis that suicide is common where external frustrations & restraints are minimal. Hypothesis was used to account for several phenomena, such as the high suicide rate on the West Coast, the high rate in the spring, & the low rate during war, & to predict other cases where suicidal behaviour might […]