Sooner than you think: A very early affective reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine in Argentina
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.31.20166272: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: As social media platforms were part of the main delivery system, all participants gave their informed consent asserting to know their privacy would be protected following the Declaration of Helsinki and national laws. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Gender was reduced to three main categories: female, male, and non-binary. 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 …SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.31.20166272: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: As social media platforms were part of the main delivery system, all participants gave their informed consent asserting to know their privacy would be protected following the Declaration of Helsinki and national laws. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Gender was reduced to three main categories: female, male, and non-binary. 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:The present study has several limitations. First, the survey was disseminated incidentally. Nevertheless, all of the country’s regions were sampled and the most important urban conglomerates where 80% of Argentine population lives represented 87% of the sample. Second, as noted previously, self-report measures have limited reliability for making diagnosis. It is important to prudentially consider these present results and to avoid jumping to clinical conclusions. Complementary and more precise procedures should be adopted to confirm or reject any assumption of diagnosis. Third, our sample was unbalanced in gender with female being overrepresented over other options. As we mentioned before, female gender is associated with increased rates of anxiety and depression in epidemiological studies, so sampling bias may have inflated the global figures of our whole study. Fourth, while we intended to measure early emotional reactions, further assessments should establish if the observed impact remains, increases, or decreases during longer periods of time. Fifth, due to the observational nature of the study, it is not possible to disentangle the effects produced by the pandemic itself from the impact of the quarantine, although COVID-19 cases were low during this survey. Thus the results should be interpreted as the consequences of the combination of the two factors. Against these limitations, a series of strengths of the study should be mentioned: the large sample size, a short-time ...
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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