Enhanced understanding of successful adjustment to low vision aids can be attained by separately analyzing each kind of aid. This was done with data derived from 458 clients who received services in 1987 from the Low Vision Clinic, Migdal Or, Haifa, Israel. Eleven kinds of visual aids were evaluated via a series of independent regression equations, each of which included seven independent variables: age, sex, work status, participation in a rehabilitation program, academic status, total number of visual aids in use, and total number of diagnosed eye diseases. Results indicated extreme variation in the predictive abilities of the models.
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