Sociodemographic factors and self-restraint from social behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: A cross-sectional study

  1. Takahiro Mori
  2. Tomohisa Nagata
  3. Kazunori Ikegami
  4. Ayako Hino
  5. Seiichiro Tateishi
  6. Mayumi Tsuji
  7. Shinya Matsuda
  8. Yoshihisa Fujino
  9. Koji Mori

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  1. Version published to 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101834
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsField Sample Permit: Study design and participants: We conducted a cross-sectional study using data from the Collaborative Online Research on Novel-coronavirus and Work study (CORoNaWork study) that was collected on February 18 and 19, 2021.
    IRB: The present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (Approval numbers: R2-079 and R3-006).
    Consent: Informed consent was obtained in the form of the website from all participants.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
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    All analyses were conducted using Stata Statistical Software (Release 16; StataCorp LLC, College Station, TX, USA).
    StataCorp
    suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)

    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:
    Limitations: This study had some limitations. First, we conducted an internet survey, which includes the possibility of selection bias. To reduce the potential bias as much as possible, sampling was balanced by gender, age, occupation, and area of residence. Second, the outcome variable was self-restraint from social behaviors, which was measured via subjective evaluations; moreover, the specific degree of self-restraint was not investigated. When the second state of emergency was declared in Japan, there was no specific target value for such self-restraint behaviors from the government, so we investigated whether self-restraint changed in response to state of emergency Third, this study was cross-sectional in nature. Our results are different from the survey that was conducted during the first state of emergency in Japan [23,24], so it is possible that the results will continue to change over time. Further investigation is required to see if the same results are obtained for the time period covering the third and subsequent state of emergency.

    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.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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