The effect of COVID-19 isolation measures on the cognition and mental health of people living with dementia: A rapid systematic review of one year of quantitative evidence
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.17.21253805: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Information sources and search terms: We searched the following databases: Pubmed, PsycINFO and CINAHL. Pubmedsuggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)PsycINFOsuggested: (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:This may be …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.17.21253805: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Information sources and search terms: We searched the following databases: Pubmed, PsycINFO and CINAHL. Pubmedsuggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)PsycINFOsuggested: (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:This may be indicative of generalised aggravation of dementia symptoms due to lockdown and impossibility of resorting to non-pharmacological management strategies due to the limitations imposed by anti-covid measures. It is important as both of these drugs have side effects including increased falls and for antipsychotics higher mortality. Limitations: Heterogeneity of tools and most importantly the choice of data reporting are the main limitation to synthesise and interpret the data from the studies identified in this review. For instance, whether a total percentage of the patient experiencing change in their symptoms was given, or whether the percentage was broken down by symptoms (with no overall figures) or whether the method used to measure the variables did not allow to extract percentages and mead and standard deviation were used instead. In addition, some measurement instruments used, such as the HADS, are not appropriate to be used in dementia. It is also fair to notice the difficulties in conducting these studies during the pandemic, in particular in care homes, that banned the entrance to external personnel and families and went through many strains to continue care throughout the pandemic.
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.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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