Physical activity, mental health and well-being of adults during initial COVID-19 containment strategies: A multi-country cross-sectional analysis
This article has been Reviewed by the following groups
Listed in
- Evaluated articles (ScreenIT)
Abstract
Article activity feed
-
-
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.15.20153791: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The overall programme of research, which also includes longitudinal components, was approved by the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Ethics Committee, University of Winchester, UK (HWB/REC/20/04).
Consent: All participants provided informed consent at the start of the survey.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 …SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.15.20153791: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The overall programme of research, which also includes longitudinal components, was approved by the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Ethics Committee, University of Winchester, UK (HWB/REC/20/04).
Consent: All participants provided informed consent at the start of the survey.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:Strengths and weaknesses of the study: The study findings should be contextualised in light of methodological limitations and strengths. The predominant ethnicity and sex of the respondents were white females which may not reflect the total population of the countries surveyed. Given that racial and/or ethnic disparities may impact the burden of COVID-19 related outcomes,[13] further investigation of the relationship between PA and mental health during COVID-19 in various racial and/or ethnic groups is needed. Furthermore, 75% of participants suggested that they met recommended PA guidelines of engaging in ≥150 minutes of moderate-to vigorous intensity PA each week; higher than the population average of countries surveyed.[14, 15] Although a wide and varied recruitment strategy was implemented, there may have been an inherent sampling bias due to the study authors working broadly within the fields of sport, exercise and health, thus the transferability to other population groups is less assured. Strengths of this study include the sample size and the speed with which the surveys were implemented within all four countries. This ensured that the population response to the respective government-mandated containment strategies was captured at similar levels of restriction across all countries, and facilitated our planned longitudinal study design. A further strength is that all countries used identical primary outcome measures (IPAQ-SF, WHO-5, DASS-9, Stages of Change scale), thu...
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.
-
