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. 2021 Jul;35(7):2064-2066.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-01130-4. Epub 2020 Aug 10.

Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on people living with eye diseases in the UK

Darren Shu Jeng Ting  1 , Sherine Krause  2 , Dalia G Said  3 , Harminder S Dua  4
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Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on people living with eye diseases in the UK

Darren Shu Jeng Ting et al. Eye (Lond). 2021 Jul.
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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on people living with eye diseases.
The questions (Q) asked in each column corresponds with the question number listed in the questionnaire (see Supplementary Table 1). “Strongly agree/agree” means that the respondents agreed that the lockdown had a negative impact on the questioned aspect and vice versa for “strongly disagree/disagree”.
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