Visual impairment and mental health: unmet needs and treatment options

DL Demmin, SM Silverstein - Clinical ophthalmology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose An estimated 2.2 billion people are visually impaired worldwide. Given that age-
related vision loss is a primary cause of vision impairment, this number is projected to rise …

A global assessment of eye health and quality of life: a systematic review of systematic reviews

L Assi, F Chamseddine, P Ibrahim… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
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 …

Vision and aging

C Owsley - Annual review of vision science, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Research on aging and vision has increased dramatically over the past few decades.
Changes in our visual capacities in later adulthood have the potential to impact our ability to …

Association between visual impairment and depression in patients attending eye clinics: a meta-analysis

M Parravano, D Petri, E Maurutto… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Given that depression is treatable and some ocular diseases that cause visual
loss are reversible, early identification and treatment of patients with visual impairment who …

Emotional well-being and adjustment to vision loss in later life: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies

SR Nyman, B Dibb, CR Victor… - Disability and …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: To review perceived emotional well-being in older people with visual impairment
and perceived factors that inhibit/facilitate psychosocial adjustment to vision loss. Method …

Social and emotional impact of diabetic retinopathy: a review

E Fenwick, G Rees, K Pesudovs… - Clinical & …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
People with vision‐threatening diabetic retinopathy are likely to experience enhanced social
and emotional strain. Critically, those with both vision‐threatening diabetic retinopathy and …

Psychological well-being in visually impaired and unimpaired individuals: A meta-analysis

M Pinquart, JP Pfeiffer - British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This meta-analysis integrates the results from 198 studies that compared psychological well-
being of visually impaired individuals with unimpaired control groups or population norms …

Effects of self-reported hearing or vision impairment on depressive symptoms: a population-based longitudinal study

JH Han, HJ Lee, J Jung, EC Park - Epidemiology and psychiatric …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Aims. The aims of this study were to investigate the effects of either hearing, vision or dual
sensory impairment on depressive symptoms and to identify subgroups that are vulnerable …

[HTML][HTML] Visual impairment and depression: Age-specific prevalence, associations with vision loss, and relation to life satisfaction

A Brunes, T Heir - World journal of psychiatry, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND To our knowledge, no study has obtained specific estimates of depression
for young and middle-aged adults with visual impairment (VI). As estimates of depression …

Impact of retinitis pigmentosa on quality of life, mental health, and employment among young adults

AE Chaumet-Riffaud, P Chaumet-Riffaud… - American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose To determine the relationship between visual function and quality of life, education,
mental health, and employment among young adults with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Design …