TY - JOUR
T1 - Visual hallucinations in patients from an ophthalmology clinic and medical clinic population
AU - Holroyd, Suzanne
AU - Rabins, Peter V.
AU - Finkelstein, Daniel
AU - Lavrisha, Martina
PY - 1994/5
Y1 - 1994/5
N2 - Although visual hallucinations have been associated with patients with visual disorders, no study has specifically examined whether visual hallucinations are indeed more prevalent than in a general medical population. In this study, 127 consecutive visual disorder patients and 100 consecutive general medical patients were screened for complex visual hallucinations. A total of 6.3% of visual disorder patients and 2% of general medical patients had visual hallucinations. Interestingly, the two medical patients with visual hallucinations also had visual disorders. Factors significantly associated with visual hallucinations were female sex (p =.029) and lower cognitive score (p =.001). Data from a previous study of patients with the visual disorder age-related macular degeneration were combined with this study to increase the sample size of visual hallucinators. Factors significantly associated with visual hallucinations in the combined sample were female sex (p =.015), living alone (pi =.019), having hearing problems (p =.047), older age (p =.013), and lower cognitive score (p <.001). Implications and future research are discussed.
AB - Although visual hallucinations have been associated with patients with visual disorders, no study has specifically examined whether visual hallucinations are indeed more prevalent than in a general medical population. In this study, 127 consecutive visual disorder patients and 100 consecutive general medical patients were screened for complex visual hallucinations. A total of 6.3% of visual disorder patients and 2% of general medical patients had visual hallucinations. Interestingly, the two medical patients with visual hallucinations also had visual disorders. Factors significantly associated with visual hallucinations were female sex (p =.029) and lower cognitive score (p =.001). Data from a previous study of patients with the visual disorder age-related macular degeneration were combined with this study to increase the sample size of visual hallucinators. Factors significantly associated with visual hallucinations in the combined sample were female sex (p =.015), living alone (pi =.019), having hearing problems (p =.047), older age (p =.013), and lower cognitive score (p <.001). Implications and future research are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1097/00005053-199405000-00004
DO - 10.1097/00005053-199405000-00004
M3 - Article
C2 - 10678308
AN - SCOPUS:0028234222
SN - 0022-3018
VL - 182
SP - 273
EP - 276
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
IS - 5
ER -