Effects of Housing Conditions and Environmental Factors on Accidents and Modification Intention of the Vision Impaired

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate (1) whether housing conditions and environmental factors influence the occurrence of accidents, and (2) the level of intention to make modifications to housing for people who are visually impaired. Results from 148 questionnaires collected in Korea show a significant difference in the occurrence of accidents between those in the high environmental demand group (HED) and those in the low environmental demand group (LED), revealing that visually impaired people living in more difficult housing environments are likely to have more falls than people living in housing without as many obstructions. For the elderly, housing conditions have a greater influence on the probability of accidents. For respondents with low vision, housing conditions appeared to be a more significant factor than for people with no vision. People with good health and under LED rated their life satisfaction higher and modification intention lower than people under HED and with a bad health condition.

Housing Assessment Tools Developed or Adapted for Use in East and Southeast Asia: A Scoping Review

“…The selection procedure resulted in a final inclusion of 22 articles (Chin et al, 2013;de Guzman et al, 2013;Eshkoor et al, 2013;Hasegawa & Kamimura, 2018;Kamei et al, 2015;Kittipimpanon et al, 2012;Lai et al, 2019;Lee & Yoo, 2015;Leung, 2019;Lin et al, 2007;Matchar et al, 2019Matchar et al, , 2017Mitoku & Shimanouchi, 2014;Pattaramongkolrit et al, 2013 Safety house checklist (Carter et al, 1997); Home-screen scale (Johnson, et al, 2001) C. 2008; Romli et al, 2016Romli et al, , 2018Sophonratanapokin et al, 2012;Sukkay, 2016;Tan et al, 2018;Tongsiri et al, 2017). A summary of the included articles is shown in Table 1.…”

“…Twelve articles used study-specific checklist items developed by researchers in East and Southeast Asia (Group C). The countries/areas and number of articles were; Singapore: 1 (Chin et al, 2013), Philippine: 1 (de Guzman et al, 2013), Malaysia: 1 (Eshkoor et al, 2013), Thailand: 5 (Kittipimpanon et al, 2012;Muangpaisan et al, 2015;Sophonratanapokin et al, 2012;Sukkay, 2016;Tongsiri et al, 2017), South Korea: 1 (Lee & Yoo, 2015), Hong Kong: 1 (Leung, 2019), Taiwan: 1 (Lin et al, 2007), and Japan: 1 (Mitoku & Shimanouchi, 2014). In Table 4, the development processes of these study-specific items are summarized.…”

“…Characteristically, the review by Pettersson and colleagues did not include any studies from East or Southeast Asia, which could be seen as further supporting the need for housing assessment tools specifically developed to match the situation in Asian countries. Previous research has pointed to clutter as a risk factor for falls (Lee & Yoo, 2015) and low selfrated health (Tsuchiya-Ito et al, 2019). This suggests that clutter may be important to include, when developing assessment tools for Asian countries or adapting assessment tools developed for countries other than Asian.…”