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Beyond monetary benefits of restoring sight in Vietnam: Evaluating well-being gains from cataract surgery

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  • Simon Feeny
  • Alberto Posso
  • Lachlan McDonald
  • Truong Thi Kim Chuyen
  • Son Thanh Tung

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A more holistic understanding of the benefits of sight-restoring cataract surgery requires a focus that goes beyond income and employment, to include a wider array of well-being measures. The objective of this study is to examine the monetary and non-monetary benefits of cataract surgery on both patients as well as their caregivers in Vietnam. Participants were randomly recruited from a Ho-Chi-Minh City Hospital. A total of 82 cataract patients and 83 caregivers participated in the survey conducted for this study. Paired t-tests, Wilcoxon Signed Rank tests, and regression analysis are used to detect any statistically significant differences in various measures of well-being for patients and caregivers before and after surgery. There are statistically significant improvements in monetary and non-monetary measures of well-being for both patients and caregivers approximately three months after undergoing cataract surgery, compared with baseline assessments collected prior to surgery. Non-monetary measures of well-being include self-assessments of overall health, mental health, hope, self-efficacy, happiness and life satisfaction. For patients, the benefits included statistically significant improvements in earnings, mobility, self-care, the ability to undertake daily activities, self-assessed health and mental health, life satisfaction, hope, and self-efficacy (p

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  • Simon Feeny & Alberto Posso & Lachlan McDonald & Truong Thi Kim Chuyen & Son Thanh Tung, 2018. "Beyond monetary benefits of restoring sight in Vietnam: Evaluating well-being gains from cataract surgery," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(2), pages 1-12, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0192774
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192774
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