PAVI 2
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Increasing Physical Activity among people with Visual Impairments 2 (PAVI 2): Profile of visual characteristics
IRAS ID
301785
Contact name
Noleen McCorry
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Queen's University Belfast
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
N/A, N/A
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 2 months, 31 days
Research summary
For some older people who have developed problems with their vision, getting enough exercise can be difficult. In fact, disabled people (including people with visual impairment) are twice as likely to be inactive than non-disabled people, and therefore have a higher risk of health problems such as coronary heart disease. Challenges experienced by some people with visual impairment, particularly older people, include unsuitable paths and walking routes, difficulties obtaining transport, feeling vulnerable, and fear of falling or injury. Despite this, we know that most people with visual impairment want to do more physical activity, including walking. The benefits of walking are well established, and include improvements in both physical and mental health. Hence, we want to develop an intervention which will help people with visual impairment to overcome these barriers and to engage in more walking. Our research team (as part of the PAVI 1 study) has conducted interviews with people with visual impairment, their families and others in supportive roles to find out what needs to change to enable people with visual impairment to do more walking. We are using this information to design and develop an intervention (a package of techniques and strategies) that can be used to increase walking. These techniques might involve ways of improving motivation and confidence and reducing fear. We also need to collect some limited information from the medical records of people with visual impairment who previously participated in the PAVI 1 study, so that we can provide a description of their visual impairments. This is a follow-up study to PAVI 1. We will ask people who previously provided their consent for us to contact them in the future to consider participation in PAVI 2. If they provide their consent then we will access some information about their visual impairment, and link this to their PAVI 1 data. Overall, this will help us to understand the characteristics of people who participated in PAVI 1, and who our intervention will be most valuable to. This will also help us to understand if there are specific impairments that we haven’t fully considered.
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Bradford Leeds Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/YH/0017
Date of REC Opinion
7 Jan 2022
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion