School Closures During Social Lockdown and Mental Health, Health Behaviors, and Well-being Among Children and Adolescents During the First COVID-19 Wave

  1. Russell Viner
  2. Simon Russell
  3. Rosella Saulle
  4. Helen Croker
  5. Claire Stansfield
  6. Jessica Packer
  7. Dasha Nicholls
  8. Anne-Lise Goddings
  9. Chris Bonell
  10. Lee Hudson
  11. Steven Hope
  12. Joseph Ward
  13. Nina Schwalbe
  14. Antony Morgan
  15. Silvia Minozzi

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  1. Version published to 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.5840
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    SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.10.21251526: (What is this?)

    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Search Strategy: We searched 11 electronic databases (PubMed, PsycINFO, Web of Science Social Citation Index, Australian Education Index, British Education Index, Education Resources Information Centre, WHO Global Research Database on COVID-19, Medrxiv, PsyArXiv, Research Square and COVID-19 Living Evidence) from inception to 1st September 2020.
    PubMed
    suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)
    PsycINFO
    suggested: (PsycINFO, RRID:SCR_014799)

    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:
    Strengths and limitations: We undertook a high quality systematic review across a large number of electronic databases, educational as well as health databases and including preprints, with independent checking of study eligibility, data extraction and quality assessment. Studies were included from 20 countries across all income levels, although few studies from very resource-poor settings were included. Our findings are subject to a number of limitations. The majority of studies provided relatively low quality evidence. Studies were largely unable to reach or recruit new participants during lockdown, hence the reliance on online self-report data collection from convenience studies. Many publications were preliminary reports or preprints, and included only simple analyses which did not take account of potential confounders. Many studies used historical control periods, which in some failed to take account of seasonal variation. Studies using parent report may have been biased by greater amounts of time spent by parents with their CYP compared with pre-pandemic. We identified no data on the impact of the degree of school closures; note that in some countries (e.g. the UK), whilst schools were essentially closed, approximately 5% of students were in school during the first pandemic wave. We could not identify nor include studies on a number of important outcomes or vulnerable groups, including studies of children with learning difficulties or autism or studies of eating disorde...

    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 rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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