The economic burden of vision loss and blindness in the United States

DB Rein, JS Wittenborn, P Zhang, F Sublett… - Ophthalmology, 2022 - Elsevier
… To measure lost household production, we set the dependent … disability that is attributable
to VL. We used logistic regression to estimate the probability of not working because of vision

The association between vision impairment and social participation in community-dwelling adults: a systematic review

K Shah, CR Frank, JR Ehrlich - Eye, 2020 - nature.com
Vision impairment (VI) is an important contributor to the global burden of disability and is …
depended on the validity and reliability of measurement tools and on the appropriateness of …

[HTML][HTML] … vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the …

JD Steinmetz, RRA Bourne, PS Briant… - The Lancet Global …, 2021 - thelancet.com
… , increases in the average age of the population, and a shift in the disease burden
towards non-communicable diseases and disabilities. Most of the principal causes of vision

[HTML][HTML] Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

R Bourne, JD Steinmetz, S Flaxman… - The Lancet global …, 2021 - thelancet.com
… a more precise estimate of the global vision loss burden in 2020 … vision loss in terms of years
lived with disability (YLDs). … met the following criteria: visual acuity data had to be measured

[HTML][HTML] Association between vision impairment and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JR Ehrlich, J Ramke, D Macleod, H Burn… - The Lancet Global …, 2021 - thelancet.com
the association between vision impairment and mortality. This study analysed the association
between vision impairment (measured … Future calculations of disability-adjusted life-years …

Longitudinal associations of self-reported vision impairment with symptoms of anxiety and depression among older adults in the United States

CR Frank, X Xiang, BC Stagg, JR Ehrlich - JAMA ophthalmology, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
… Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328
measured using the same testing protocol each year, which provided internal measurement

[HTML][HTML] Association of vision-related quality of life with visual function in age-related macular degeneration

SG Pondorfer, JH Terheyden, M Heinemann… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
… used VRQoL instrument is the Impact of Vision Impairment (IVI) … The microperimetric
outcome measure was the mean sensitivity (… with self-reported measures of visual disability 41 . …

Factors related to the use of magnifying low vision aids: a scoping review

MC Lorenzini, W Wittich - Disability and rehabilitation, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… In the majority, self-report was the main measure of low vision aid use. However, indirect
measures can involve some degree of assumption that a participant has used …

[HTML][HTML] Coping strategy in persons with low vision or blindness–an exploratory study

P Rai, J Rohatgi, U Dhaliwal - Indian journal of ophthalmology, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… Also, we did not measure the time of onset of visual disability. It would have been interesting
to see if there was any relationship between type of coping strategy and duration of visual …

[HTML][HTML] Low vision status and declining vision decrease health-related quality of life: results from a nationwide 11-year follow-up study

J Taipale, A Mikhailova, M Ojamo, J Nättinen… - Quality of Life …, 2019 - Springer
… analysis we examined the relation between anxiety/depression and measured VA, using …
good HRQoL is indisputable to reduce the functional disability caused by VA loss. This study …