The Association between Socioeconomic Factors and Visual Function among Patients with Age-Related Cataracts

Table 2

Correlations of the medical and healthcare services with subjective and objective measurements (n = 830).

	Number of health agencies per 10,000 population	Number of PDs and APDs per 10,000 population	Number of RNs per 10,000 population	Number of HTs per 10,000 population	Health expenditure per capita (yuan)
BCVA (LogMAR)	0.267	−0.283	−0.289	−0.278	−0.020
LOCS III NO score	−0.174	0.239	0.236	0.237	0.159
LOCS III C score	0.223	−0.298	−0.294	−0.296	−0.164
LOCS III P score	0.487	−0.368	−0.393	−0.368	0.063
VF-14	−0.303	0.427	0.409	0.426	0.287
General health	−0.130	0.156	0.150	0.155	0.153
General vision	−0.012	−0.017	−0.012	−0.019	0.107
Ocular pain	−0.229	0.434	0.406	0.432	0.471
Near activities	−0.259	0.396	0.368	0.399	0.267
Distant activities	−0.265	0.452	0.430	0.448	0.414
Social functioning	−0.314	0.538	0.510	0.533	0.502
Mental health	−0.289	0.539	0.504	0.537	0.367
Role difficulties	−0.197	0.379	0.351	0.379	0.418
Dependency	−0.358	0.589	0.559	0.586	0.400
Driving	−0.064	0.331	0.275	0.337	0.358
Color vision	−0.336	0.564	0.540	0.558	0.496
Peripheral vision	−0.315	0.508	0.484	0.504	0.427
Total score of NEI-VFQ-25	−0.291	0.502	0.469	0.500	0.459

, , PDs, practicing doctors; APDs, assistant practicing doctors; RNs, registered nurse; HT, health technician; BCVA, best-corrected visual acuity; NO, nuclear opalescence; C, cortical; P, posterior subcapsular; LOCS III, Lens Opacities Classification System III; VF-14, Visual Function Index-14; NEI-VFQ-25, 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire.