[Associations of perceptions of patient safety culture, job crafting, and perceptions of patient rounding with patient safety management activities among tertiary hospital nurses].

By 2030, 2.7 M UK individuals will live with some form of sight loss, leading to reduced quality of life, mobility and independence and poorer mental health []. People with sight loss have higher prevalence of depression [–], anxiety [], and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [] than people without sight loss. Our own research demonstrates that the prevalence of depressive symptoms in blind and partially sighted people in the UK is 43% (compared to 16% of the general population and 35% of individuals with a disability in Great Britain []); and of those with depression, 75% were not in receipt of any treatment []. This is partly due to lack of mental health consideration by professionals: for example, only a third of low vision practitioners (optometrists and dispensing opticians who had completed a further Professional Certificate in Low Vision) in Wales actively tried to identify depression in their patients []. There is therefore a need to disseminate our research more widely than through academic publications, to educate professionals in the sight loss sector (e.g. ophthalmologists, Low Vision Rehabilitation Workers, Eye Clinic Liaison Officers, charity staff) about the link between vision impairment and poor mental health. Public dissemination would also be beneficial, as the UK public have a poor understanding of sight loss in general []. Within this project, based on the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) School for Public Health Research (SPHR) Public Mental Health (PMH) Programme definitions [] we define public involvement as actively involving individuals with lived experience of vision impairment and mental health issues in the dissemination of research.