The early impact of COVID-19 on primary care psychological therapy services: A descriptive time series of electronic healthcare records

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot 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:
    Strengths & Limitations: The present study is the first to examine a quantifiable impact of COVID-19 on primary care mental health services at scale, with data from a wide and diverse range of service providers across multiple geographic regions in England. Nonetheless, the dataset contains only a subset of service providers and may therefore not be nationally representative. There may be variation by service providers and regions that is not captured by the data used in the present study. However, the observed trends appear consistent with those detected by the monitoring of activity within IAPT service’s patient management software (Eldridge, 2020). Furthermore, it should be noted that the present research took a cross-sectional, observational approach using descriptive methods. As such, it is not possible to draw causal conclusions, and the capacity of estimating future impact is limited and remains speculative. Implications: A clear reduction of referrals took place during the early stages of COVID-19, producing approximately a 55% deficit in patients receiving mental healthcare. A concern may be that a backlog of patients has accumulated, which may cause future pressures on service providers to treat these patients in addition to an possible excess of patients who may seek mental health support as the long-term consequences of COVID-19 become more apparent. Given the faster increase in referrals after the initial drop from urban and BAME groups, compared to other groups,...

    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.
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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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