The use of informal care by people with vision impairment

• Ana Patricia Marques ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Patricia Marques, Antonio Filipe Macedo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ap.marques@ensp.unl.pt

  Affiliations National School of Public Health, NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, Public Health Research Center, National School of Public Health, NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8242-7021

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• Antonio Filipe Macedo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Patricia Marques, Antonio Filipe Macedo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine and Optometry Linnaeus University Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden, Low Vision and Visual Rehabilitation Lab, Department and Center of Physics—Optometry and Vision Science, University of Minho Braga, Braga, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3436-2010

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• Laura Hernandez-Moreno,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Low Vision and Visual Rehabilitation Lab, Department and Center of Physics—Optometry and Vision Science, University of Minho Braga, Braga, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6623-9151

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• Pedro Lima Ramos,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Optometry Linnaeus University Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden

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• Thomas Butt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom, National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Gary Rubin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom

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• Rui Santana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National School of Public Health, NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, Public Health Research Center, National School of Public Health, NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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• for the Portuguese visual impairment study group (PORVIS-group)

  ¶Membership of the Portuguese visual impairment study group (PORVIS-group) is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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