Psychometric assessment of patients with central serous chorioretinopathy and correlation with disease stage and progression: a case control study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was performed as a substudy of the Retina.net German CSC registry (leading ethics committee: Ethics Committee of the University of Freiburg, No 21–1376, www.ccs-register.de). A separate ethics approval for this study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the University of Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany (No 561/16). The study was conducted in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all study participants prior to participation. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The CSC registry is supported by Retina.Net, a collaborative network of academic in institutions in Germany with financial support from the Jackstädt Foundation, the German Retina Society (RG) and the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG). It also received financial support from the Dr. Werner Jackstädt Foundation, Germany. L. J. B. Pauleikhoff was supported by the German Research foundation (Grant PA 4282/1–1). This funding organization provided unrestricted grants and had no role in the design or conduct of this research."