A Global Assessment of Eye Health and Quality of Life: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

More than 1 billion people worldwide have vision impairment or blindness from potentially preventable or correctable causes. Quality of life, an important measure of physical, emotional, and social well-being, appears to be negatively associated with vision impairment, and increasingly, ophthalmic interventions are being assessed for their association with quality of life.

Objective

To examine the association between vision impairment or eye disease and quality of life, and the outcome of ophthalmic interventions on quality of life globally and across the life span, through an umbrella review or systematic review of systematic reviews.

Evidence review

The electronic databases MEDLINE, Ovid, Embase, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Proquest Dissertat

SUBMITTER: Assi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7881366 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature