The Relationship among Self -Management with Quality of Life and Visual Functioning Glaucoma Patients in Nikokari Eye Hospital Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2013

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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.‎