Effectiveness of Bates Therapy on Visual Acuity Among Elderly

Abstract

In a chosen senior living facility in the Alappuzha district, a pre-experimental study was carried out to evaluate the impact of Bates therapy on visual acuity. Assessing the mean pre-test and post-test levels of visual acuity in the aged, determining the impact of Bates therapy on visual acuity in the elderly, and determining the relationship between the pre-test level of visual acuity and specific sociodemographic characteristics were the goals of the study. For the study, a pre-test-post-test-only one-group design was chosen. 33 older individuals with vision impairments made up the sample, which was chosen using a non-probability purposive sampling technique. Roy's Adaptation Theory served as the study's conceptual foundation. For 26 days, the experimental group received Bates therapy every day for 30 minutes. There are thirty positive differences and three zero differences in the right eye. When the zero differences are eliminated, the p-value with a sample size of 30 is 0.00000000931 at the P<0.001 level of significance, while in the left eye, there are 29 positive differences and 4 zero differences. With 29 samples, the P-value is 0.00000000186 at the p <0.001 level of significance after excluding the zero differences. As a result, we can say that the Bates therapy improved visual acuity. Pretest visual acuity levels did not significantly correlate with certain sociodemographic factors.