Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Rehabilitation Outcomes for Adults who are Visually Impaired
- 1 March 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
- Vol. 91 (2) , 117-130
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0145482x9709100205
Abstract
This article defines some of the conceptual and methodological issues in creating outcome measures in vision rehabilitation. It proposes a model to describe rehabilitation outcomes in the context of organizational activities and discusses such methodological problems as the clarification and measurement of goals, aggregation of data, self-report and observational data, scaling, frequency of measurements, and causal events.Keywords
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