Open AccessPsychosocial characteristics of totally blind people in a Nigerian city
Author(s) -
Dupe S Ademola-Popoola,
M F Tunde-Ayinmode,
T.M. Akande
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
middle east african journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0975-1599
pISSN - 0974-9233
DOI - 10.4103/0974-9233.71603
Subject(s) - psychosocial , medicine , childhood blindness , population , blindness , cohort , psychiatry , family medicine , optometry , environmental health , pregnancy , biology , retinopathy of prematurity , genetics , gestational age
To characterize the demographic and psychosocial problems of a group of blind people as a way of attracting more attention to and providing data that can improve the psychosocial care of the visually impaired.