Economic crisis and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.20.21254038: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The survey was approved by the Ethics Review Committee on Human Research of Waseda University (approval #: 2020-050). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not 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:This study has several limitations. We do not have data on the pre-COVID mental health conditions of our respondents, …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.20.21254038: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The survey was approved by the Ethics Review Committee on Human Research of Waseda University (approval #: 2020-050). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not 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:This study has several limitations. We do not have data on the pre-COVID mental health conditions of our respondents, and thus our findings are descriptive, not causal. Additionally, although our surveys were designed so that our respondents were representative of the Japanese population in terms of their sex, age group, and area of residence, it is possible that some segments of the population were not represented in our sample because they were online surveys. Despite these limitations, this study presented evidence that COVID-induced economic shocks can have a differential detrimental effect on mental health depending on the sex of workers. The economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic can remain with us much longer than the disease itself. More work is necessary to identify vulnerable individuals during the pandemic so that we can monitor their mental health status.
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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