Eye health and quality of life: an umbrella review protocol

Lama Assi; Lori Rosman; Fatimah Chamseddine; Perla Ibrahim; Hadi Sabbagh; Nathan Congdon; Jennifer Evans; Jacqueline Ramke; Hannah Kuper; Matthew J Burton; Joshua R Ehrlich; Bonnielin K Swenor

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037648

Eye health and quality of life: an umbrella review protocol

BMJ Open. 2020 Aug 30;10(8):e037648. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037648.

Authors

Lama Assi¹, Lori Rosman², Fatimah Chamseddine³, Perla Ibrahim⁴, Hadi Sabbagh⁴, Nathan Congdon^{5

6}, Jennifer Evans⁷, Jacqueline Ramke^{7

8}, Hannah Kuper⁹, Matthew J Burton^{7

10}, Joshua R Ehrlich^{11

12}, Bonnielin K Swenor^{13

14}

Affiliations

¹ Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon.
⁵ Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast School of Medicine Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Belfast, UK.
⁶ Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
⁷ International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁸ School of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁹ International Centre for Evidence in Disability, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
¹⁰ Cornea & External Eye Disease, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK.
¹¹ Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
¹² Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
¹³ Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA bswenor@jhmi.edu.
¹⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Introduction: Vision impairment and eye disease are major global health concerns and have been associated with increased morbidity and mortality, and lower quality of life. Quality of life, whether generic, vision-specific or disease-specific, is an important measure of the impact of eye health on people's daily activities, well-being and visual function, and is increasingly used to evaluate the impact of ophthalmic interventions and new devices. While many studies and reviews have examined the relationship between vision or eye health and quality of life across different contexts, there has yet to be a synthesis of the impact of vision impairment, eye disease and ophthalmic interventions on quality of life globally and across the lifespan.

Methods and analysis: An umbrella review of systematic reviews will be conducted to address these two questions: (1) What is the association of vision impairment and eye disease with quality of life? (2) What is the impact of ophthalmic interventions on quality of life? A search of related literature will be performed on the 11 February 2020 in Medline Ovid, Embase.com, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global, and the grey literature, and repeated at the synthesis stage. Title/abstract and full-text screening, methodological quality assessment and data extraction will be conducted by reviewers working independently and in duplicate. Assessment of methodological quality and data extraction will be performed using Joanna Briggs Institute standard forms. Findings from the systematic reviews and their methodological quality will be summarised qualitatively in the text and using tables.

Ethics and dissemination: No ethical approval is required. Results of this umbrella review will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and summarised in the Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health.

Trial registration number: This protocol was registered in the Open Science Framework Registries (https://osf.io/qhv9g/).

Keywords: epidemiology; ophthalmology; public health.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Blindness
Child
Eye Diseases*
Global Health
Humans
Quality of Life*
Review Literature as Topic

Abstract

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