A Holistic Approach to Optometry:

Helping Patients Understand the Sleep, Stress and Eye Health Connections

An abundance of Emerging research is highlighting the interconnected nature of dry eye disease, digital eye strain, sleep quality, stress, and mental health. It is now acknowledged that a holistic approach to understanding ocular challenges is essential to improving patient outcomes, and conversations between doctors and patients regarding stress and sleep are crucial in developing an effective treatment plan. This research is highlighting how Extended digital screen use is linked to dry eye disease and sleep disruptions, and how. Stress can intensify dry eye symptoms, impacting mental health negatively. Without shifting to a more holistic treatment lens, This can result in a narrow understanding of patient needs and less effective management of a patient's ocular health.

Research Library & Scientific Validity

Providers and patients alike can access this library to better understand the published research and scientific validity behind the ECIQ®’s focus: how sleep, stress and eye health are connected and can impact one another. These publications can shed light on how this interconnectivity is more important to address than ever, and further substantiate the need for a holistic assessment tool like the ECIQ®.

  • Association of Screen Time, Quality of Sleep and Dry Eye in College Students:

    Shows a significant association between dry eye, daily screen time spent, and the quality of sleep among college-going girls.
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  • The Relationship Between Dry Eye Disease and Digital Screen Use

    Describes evidence that digital screen use is associated with dry eye disease, and how dry eye affects mental health and work productivity in digital screen users.
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  • Relationship Between Dry Eye Disease and Emotional Disorder:

    Investigates the relationship between dry eye disease and anxiety, as well as dry eye disease and depression.
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  • Surprising Links Between Stress and the Eyes:

    Discusses how stress can affect the eyes, and potentially interfere with sleep and other aspects of health.
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  • Sleep Disorders, Mental Health, and Dry Eye Disease in South Korea:

    Discusses dry eye disease as a multifactorial disease of the ocular surface causing discomfort, mild ocular irritation, fatigue, and visual disturbance, with a focus on South Korean population.
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  • A Comprehensive Review:

    This article discusses 24 different questionnaires, highlighting six of them that have been evaluated for psychometric properties.
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  • Measuring Patient-Reported Outcomes:

    This review focuses on how dry eye questionnaires measure patient-reported outcomes and health-related quality of life.
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  • Questionnaire Precision and Validity:

    This article discusses the measurement precision and psychometric validity of dry eye symptom questionnaires for clinical assessment in glaucoma patients.
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  • Comparative Analysis:

    This article compares four validated questionnaires for dry eye screening, examining their psychometric validity for clinical use in the African population.
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  • Measuring Subjective Sleep Quality:

    This review discusses various sleep quality questionnaires, focusing on their psychometric properties, construct validity, and factorial structure.
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  • Development and validation of the Dry Eye Questionnaire-5 (DEQ-5)

    This study establishes the DEQ-5 as a valid and reliable tool for assessing dry eye severity.
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  • A survey on sleep assessment methods

    This survey compares sleep assessment questionnaires and discusses validation studies for sleep detection hardware devices.
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  • A New Single-Item Sleep Quality Scale: Results of Psychometric Evaluation

    This article evaluates a new single-item sleep quality scale using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.
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  • The Sleep Regularity Questionnaire: Development and Initial Validation

    This article discusses the development and validation of a new questionnaire assessing sleep regularity.
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  • Sleep evaluation scales and questionaries: A Review

    This review discusses the validation process for new or translated sleep evaluation scales and questionnaires.
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  • The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS):

    This article discusses the reliability and validity of the PSS, correlating it with life-event scores, depressive and physical symptomatology, and other factors
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  • Review of the Psychometric Evidence of the Perceived Stress Scale

    This study reviews the psychometric properties of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
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  • Psychometric Properties of the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) in Adolescents

    The study aims to evaluate the fit of previously proposed PSQ-models in females and males and tests measurement invariance across gender​.
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  • Reliability and Validity of the Perceived Stress Scale-10 in Hispanic Populations

    Discusses the internal consistency reliability and validity of the PSS-10 in a specific demographic.
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  • Psychometric Analysis of the Perceived Stress Scale Among Healthy University Students

    This study assesses the psychometric properties of the PSS-10 in Saudi university students.
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