The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on College Students’ Health and Financial Stability in New York City: Findings from a Population-Based Sample of City University of New York (CUNY) Students
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Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The study was reviewed and approved by the CUNY School of Public Health’s Institutional Review Board (Protocol #695980); the survey began with informed consent, requiring participants to indicate consent electronically prior to starting the survey.
Consent: The study was reviewed and approved by the CUNY School of Public Health’s Institutional Review Board (Protocol #695980); the survey began with informed consent, requiring participants to indicate consent electronically prior to starting the survey.Randomization The first 1,000 respondents received a $20 gift card for their participation by email, and five respondents among all who participated were … SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.08.20246074: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
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Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The study was reviewed and approved by the CUNY School of Public Health’s Institutional Review Board (Protocol #695980); the survey began with informed consent, requiring participants to indicate consent electronically prior to starting the survey.
Consent: The study was reviewed and approved by the CUNY School of Public Health’s Institutional Review Board (Protocol #695980); the survey began with informed consent, requiring participants to indicate consent electronically prior to starting the survey.Randomization The first 1,000 respondents received a $20 gift card for their participation by email, and five respondents among all who participated were randomly selected to receive $100 gift cards. Blinding For open-ended questions or ‘other’ response categories, we identified common themes and had two independent reviewers code each quote in a blinded fashion with discussion to resolve discrepancies. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable The survey comprised five domains: educational experience, household/living situation, economic impact, health impact and socio-demographic characteristics; other socio-demographic and student status data such as sex (categorized as male or female), race/ethnicity, campus and full-time or part-time student status were taken from the centralized student database. Table 2: Resources
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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 has a number of limitations. Recall bias may have affected students’ reports on general health at the beginning of the semester. We collected cross-sectional data in April 2020 prior to the first stimulus bill, which temporarily increased unemployment benefits. The financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is changing, and students may be experiencing different levels of financial instability given the temporal changes to available benefits. We had a 23% response rate, which may introduce bias in our results, even with the creation of non-response weights. Finally, our study is cross-sectional, and thus factors associated with mental health outcomes may not be causal. We note, however, that there is a plausible mechanism by which financial stressors, dealing with COVID-19 illness, being a caretaker and worries about delays in graduation could lead to poor mental health and many of the open-ended responses support the direction of these associations. Our results suggest that to mitigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on low-income urban college students requires a multi-pronged approach. First, universities need to ensure that students have access to campus, community and telehealth mental health services. In our study, students with anxiety/depression were more likely to report increased substance use and increased anxiety around delays to graduation, than those not experiencing anxiety/depression, highlighting the importance of reaching these students...
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