Prognosis of depression in visually impaired adults

This paper presents the level of depression in the visually impaired adults. The sample of the study involves visually impaired young adults and visually impaired middle aged adults. Purposive sampling technique was adopted for the study. 200 visually impaired adults participated and interview method was used to collect the data. Overall mean score comparison shows that middle aged visually impaired (13.68±6.21) is greater than the mean score obtained by visually impaired young adults (12.04±5.04). The overall mean scores on dimensions (guilt, feeling of being punished, satisfaction level, loss of interest, decision making, appetite and weight loss) of depression is greater among the middle aged visually impaired adults.