Vicarious traumatization in the general public, members, and non-members of medical teams aiding in COVID-19 control

  1. Zhenyu Li
  2. Jingwu Ge
  3. Meiling Yang
  4. Jianping Feng
  5. Mei Qiao
  6. Riyue Jiang
  7. Jiangjiang Bi
  8. Gaofeng Zhan
  9. Xiaolin Xu
  10. Long Wang
  11. Qin Zhou
  12. Chenliang Zhou
  13. Yinbing Pan
  14. Shijiang Liu
  15. Haiwei Zhang
  16. Jianjun Yang
  17. Bin Zhu
  18. Yimin Hu
  19. Kenji Hashimoto
  20. Yan Jia
  21. Haofei Wang
  22. Rong Wang
  23. Cunming Liu
  24. Chun Yang

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  1. Version published to 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.03.007
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: The Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University approved the study (approval number: 2020-SR-101).
    Consent: Therefore, an anonymous questionnaire was structured using a mobile app called “Sojump” (www.sojump.com) and pushed to individuals via WeChat after obtaining informed consent.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Analyses were performed using SPSS version 20.0 (IBM Co. LTD, Chicago, IL, USA).
    SPSS
    suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)

    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:
    The study has certain limitations. First, the observational objects are mainly nurses. The reason for this option is that the proportion of nurses in the medical teams for COVID-19 control constitutes more than 70%, such that investigating nurses is representative. Secondly, this study is a descriptive cross-sectional one, which is unable to explore the causal linkage between factors. Therefore, carrying out a longitudinal large-sized intervention study and enrolling clinical doctors and other medical workers, such as technicians, is necessary to further explore the pathogenesis, therapeutic strategies, and mechanisms of VT. In summary, the results suggest that the GP and medical staff suffer from VT. However, the VT of non-front-line medical staff is more serious than that of front-line medical staff. Therefore, early intervention of VT and psychological stress for the GP and medical staff, as well as the transparent announcement of epidemic information can facilitate the psychological treatment and control of COVID-19.

    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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  3. Version published to 10.1101/2020.02.29.20029322v1 on medRxiv