What do adults with visual impairment mean by well-being? Identifying the building blocks of well-being in the context of visual impairment.

Autor:	Heinze N; BRAVO VICTOR, London, United Kingdom., Davies F; BRAVO VICTOR, London, United Kingdom.; Blind Veterans UK, London, United Kingdom., York S; BRAVO VICTOR, London, United Kingdom., Chan SH; BRAVO VICTOR, London, United Kingdom., Farrell D; Northern Hub for Veterans and Military Families Research, Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom., Gomes RSM; BRAVO VICTOR, London, United Kingdom.; Northern Hub for Veterans and Military Families Research, Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2024 Aug 22; Vol. 15, pp. 1395636. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 22 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1395636
Abstrakt:	Background: Well-being has become a key outcome of health and support services for adults with visual impairment (V.I.). However, there is a lack of consensus on how well-being is conceptualized and assessed in V.I. research, if it is defined at all. A shared understanding of what well-being means in the context of adult V.I. is essential to enable comparison of findings across studies and collaboration between support organizations. Methods: This article reports findings from a series of four online focus groups with adults with V.I. and one with practitioners working in the field of adult V.I. The focus groups explored what participants meant by well-being and which factors impacted their well-being. A total of 17 adults with V.I. and five practitioners took part. A list of all components of well-being, factors that impact well-being, and items in the protective buffer that may mitigate the impact of factors on well-being were extracted from the data. Results: Despite the noted difficulty in defining well-being and disagreement around the extent to which well-being was universal or individual, a preliminary model of well-being emerged from the focus group discussions. The core of well-being reflects an overall feeling of contentment arising from a positive evaluation of how one is feeling, how one is feeling within oneself, and how one is feeling about one's life. Factors relating to balance/equilibrium, health, mood, other people, the self, and a sense of security and purpose can positively or negatively impact well-being. This impact may be mitigated by a protective buffer consisting of one's mood, mindset, ability to cope, resilience, and acceptance. Many items were discussed in multiple roles, e.g., as a component of well-being or factor. Conclusion: This research took a bottom-up approach to explore what well-being means in the context of adult V.I. The role of certain items and the structure of the proposed model of well-being will need to be confirmed in future research with stakeholders across the V.I. sector. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2024 Heinze, Davies, York, Chan, Farrell and Gomes.)
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