Mental-health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults with neurodevelopmental disorders
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Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable Sample: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) study is an ongoing longitudinal study which recruited pregnant woman in the Avon region of South-West England, due to give birth between 1 April 1991 and 31 December 1992 (Boyd et al., 2013; Fraser et al., 2013; Northstone et al., 2019). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Cell Line Authentication Authentication: This is designed to measure hyperactive and inattentive symptoms, ranges from 0-10, and has been validated against a DSM-5 diagnosis of ADHD (Riglin et al., 2021a), with a cut-point of ≥6 recommended to capture approximately 10% of the … SciScore for 10.1101/2022.05.09.22274714: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable Sample: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) study is an ongoing longitudinal study which recruited pregnant woman in the Avon region of South-West England, due to give birth between 1 April 1991 and 31 December 1992 (Boyd et al., 2013; Fraser et al., 2013; Northstone et al., 2019). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Cell Line Authentication Authentication: This is designed to measure hyperactive and inattentive symptoms, ranges from 0-10, and has been validated against a DSM-5 diagnosis of ADHD (Riglin et al., 2021a), with a cut-point of ≥6 recommended to capture approximately 10% of the sample. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Statistical Analysis Procedure: All analyses were conducted in R (R Core Team, 2021) Statistical Analysis Proceduresuggested: NoneResults 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:For those with ADHD and females with ASD, depressive symptoms are the lowest during the first COVID timepoint, when the UK was in strictest national lockdown, with schools and many workplaces closed and limitations in place on socialising and leaving the house. Similarly, a longitudinal study in Western Australia showed that children and adolescents with ADHD reported decreases in depression and increases in positive wellbeing between pre-COVID and school closures due to the pandemic (Houghton et al., 2022). Qualitative studies in adults and children with ADHD have reported some positives of lockdown, including the flexibility of managing schedules, and less exposure to negative feedback (Ando et al., 2021; Bobo et al., 2020). Additionally, some individuals with ASD reported that the relief of day-to-day social demands was appreciated during the early lockdown, with less demands to camouflage or mask behaviour (Bundy et al., 2022). This potentially protective environment of lockdown may be particularly prevalent for females with ASD, for whom we saw the greatest decrease in depressive symptoms. Previous evidence indicates that females with ASD commonly mask or camouflage behaviours in social situations in order to ‘fit in’ (Hull et al., 2019; Hull et al., 2017) and camouflaging has been linked to greater symptoms of depression and anxiety in autistic adults (Hull et al., 2021). Therefore, it may be possible that the lack of expectation to socialise during the first COVID lock...
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