| dc.description.abstract | Abstract: Introduction: Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases causing optic nerve damage. Glaucoma is a chronic disease in which life-long treatment and follow-up is required, and it is a condition which ultimately may progress to blindness. As long as the treatment of glaucoma is able only to decelerate the disease and is notable to recover visual functionality, it is critical that patients are treated before their quality of life deteriorates. Glaucoma not only affects the visual function and increases the cost of treatment, it also has a bearing on the overall health of the patient and his/her quality of life. Some pertinent studies that focused on chronic disease treatment and management has become a guarantee of life quality. As the patient is more aware of his/her problem, he can participate more actively in the management of the disease. Due to the aging of world population, increasing number of patients with glaucoma and increasing costs of treatment and its impact on quality of life, self-management of glaucoma related quality of life, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between self management and quality of life.Method of study: This research is a correlation study which examines the relation between self. management, the quality life, and visual function of the infected patients referred to the Nikokari hospital of Tabriz medical science university. The 200 glaucoma patients referred to the....... Nikokari hospital were selected as the research sample. Tools of collecting data were questionnaire including social personal, self-management questionnaire, glaucoma quality of life questionnaire and visual function questionnaire. The data was collected after determining the validity and reliability of the questionnaire and analyzed applying the descriptive and analytic statics, Findings: 66(%55) patients were male and 54(%45) patients were female. The mean age patients was 59 +17.17. lo (%8.3) of the patients were single, and 110 (%91.7) were married. The analytis statics showed that mean quality of life patients 33.88+13.73, mean self-management patients 65.06+ 12.69 and mean visual function patients 81.361- 14.01.%60.80 patients the highest score was for the self-management. A significant relationship was found between the self management with quality of life and visual function in glaucoma patients. Conclusions: A significant positive linear relationship between the self-management with quality of life and visual function in glaucoma patients. The most patients had high score of self-management. Maximum mean of life are related to the peripheral vision, adaptation darkness and glare, maximum mean of visual function are related to the color vision. Therefore, it is offered that for promotion of self management, quality of life, and visual function in glaucoma patients, education emphasizing self management should be considered. | en_US |
