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Work productivity among Sjögren's Syndrome and non-Sjögren's dry eye patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Improvement in Visual-Tasking Daily Living Activities and Work Productivity in Patients with Dry Eye Disease: Integrated Analysis of COMET Studies.Ophthalmology and therapy · 2026Article
- Association between average screen time and dry eye disease: a secondary analysis of publicly available cross-sectional data.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Ocular Dryness Severity in Sjögren's Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Observational
- Recent Advances in Pathogenesis, Diagnostic Imaging, and Treatment of Sjögren's Syndrome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Influence of Environmental Factors with Clinical Signs and Symptoms in the Management of Dry Eye Disease.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Article
- Qualitative Study on the Real Experiences of Patients with Meige Syndrome Based on the Individual and Family Self-Management Theory.Patient preference and adherence · 2024Article
- Emerging treatment for Sjögren's disease: a review of recent phase II and III trials.Expert opinion on emerging drugs · 2023Review
- Perfluorohexyloctane Eye Drops for Dry Eye Disease Associated With Meibomian Gland Dysfunction in Chinese Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA ophthalmology · 2023Article
- Patient-reported burden and overall impact of dry eye disease across eight European countries: a cross-sectional web-based survey.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Review on the possible pathophysiological mechanisms underlying visual display terminal-associated dry eye disease.Acta ophthalmologica · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundDry eye disease (DED) is one of the most common conditions presenting to eye care providers and is increasingly recognized to have poor outcomes on quality of life, activities of daily living, and social and emotional well-being. Here, we aim to understand the association between dry eye symptoms and workplace productivity experienced by patients with non-Sjögren's dry eye and Sjögren's Syndrome.
methodsMEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Healthstar, and PsycINFO were searched from inception to May 2019.
resultsThirty-one studies consisting of 50,446 study participants from 14 countries were included in this systematic review. Among non-Sjögren's dry eye patients, there was significant absenteeism (ES = 0.19; 95% CI: [0.04, 0.35]), presenteeism (ES = 0.25; 95% CI: [0.15. 0.35]), productivity impairment (ES = 0.24; 95% CI: [0.20, 0.27]), activity impairment (ES = 0.30; 95% CI: [0.21, 0.38]), and subjective difficulties at work (ES = 0.58; 95% CI: [0.40, 0.75]). Patients with Sjögren's Syndrome demonstrated significant absenteeism (ES = 0.13, 95% CI: [0.10, 0.17]), presenteeism (ES = 0.28, 95% CI: [0.24, 0.32]), productivity impairment (ES = 0.31, 95% CI: [0.27, 0.35]), and activity impairment (ES = 0.39, 95% CI: [0.32, 0.47]) in the workplace. In addition, patients with Sjögren's Syndrome demonstrated significantly lower employment rate (ES = 0.42, 95% CI: [0.34, 0.50]), decreased number of hours worked (SMD = -0.21, 95% CI: [-0.39, -0.02]), and increased work disability (ES = 0.18; 95% CI: [0.09, 0.27]).
conclusionsThis is the first systematic review and meta-analysis to demonstrate the negative association between DED and several work productivity measures.
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