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Table 3 Participants’ knowledge toward sense of vision in the pre and post intervention

From: Effect of nursing guidelines on first-year nursing students’ knowledge and reported practice towards sensory impairments among the elderly

Knowledge toward sense of vision

Pre intervention n = 531

Post intervention n = 531

P-value

Correct

Incorrect

Correct

Incorrect

No

%

No

%

No

%

No

%

The sense of vision decreases in the elderly

510

96.0

21

4.0

531

100.0

0

0.0

0.000*

Does the elderly ability to see clearly impaired

514

96.8

17

3.2

527

99.2

4

0.8

0.004*

Does the elderly person’s ability to focus decreases to see one thing at different distances (especially seeing small nearby objects such as the sewing needle hole- the warnings written on the medicine box. Also, reading the small font

498

93.8

33

6.2

507

95.5

24

4.5

0.220

Does the elderly person’s ability to see small things close to him, such as the hole of a sewing needle, and to read the warnings written on the medicine box in small font, decrease?

444

83.6

87

16.4

487

91.7

44

8.3

0.000*

Does the elderly person can differentiate between different colours (especially blue- green- violet)?

186

35.0

345

65.0

246

46.3

285

53.7

0.000*

Does the elderly person’s ability to see in dim light and adapt when moving from light to dark and vice versa decreases?

430

81.0

101

19.0

464

87.4

67

12.6

0.004*

Does the elderly's ability to see and adapt to bright light increase?

222

41.8

309

58.2

257

48.4

274

51.6

0.031*

Does the elderly's ability decrease to see distances correctly?

433

81.5

98

18.5

483

91.0

48

9.0

0.000*

Does impair vision affect daily activities such as: walking- going outside- moving to/from the bed or chair?

377

71.0

154

29.0

465

87.6

66

12.4

0.000*

Does impair vision affect the increased incidence of falls (falls)?

498

93.8

33

6.2

507

95.5

24

4.5

0.220

  1. * Statistically Significant Differences, Chi-square test was used