Self-reported vs Directly Observed Face Mask Use in Kenya
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.27.21250487: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The study procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Boards in Kenya (Maseno University) and the United States (University of California, Berkeley). Randomization We conducted direct observations between August 20 to September 11, 2020, in 71 randomly selected villages and 10 weekly markets. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following …SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.27.21250487: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The study procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Boards in Kenya (Maseno University) and the United States (University of California, Berkeley). Randomization We conducted direct observations between August 20 to September 11, 2020, in 71 randomly selected villages and 10 weekly markets. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Our study was subject to several limitations. Self-reported data, especially when it is related to socially-desirable behaviors, is known to suffer from bias.13 Expecting some level of reporting bias, we asked participants not only about their own mask use behavior but also the behaviors of others in the community. Although the proportion of others in the community wearing masks was lower than self-reported mask use, these estimates were still substantial overestimates of the independent observations. Mask use observations were also subject to bias, since we cannot be certain whether people carried masks in a place that was out of sight to the observers. Nonetheless, since having a mask in a place other than on the face is ineffective in preventing the spread of infection, this bias does not significantly affect our study conclusions. Enumerators were also not able to distinguish whether observed individuals are members of the same household where continuous mask wearing may be impractical. However, since observed mask use was low in all settings including public transport and shopping in market centers where people are in close proximity to strangers, this seems unlikely to alter our conclusions. Finally, we acknowledge that the observational nature of the study limits the interpretation of our findings to descriptive statistics that cannot be interpreted as causal. The progress that the scientific community has made in vaccine development may be slow to translate to widespr...
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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