Subjective mental health and need for care among psychiatric outpatients during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from an outreach initiative in Sweden

  1. Oskar Flygare
  2. Volen Z. Ivanov
  3. Roland Säll
  4. Henrik Malaise
  5. Ekaterina Ivanova
  6. Christian Rück
  7. Nitya Jayaram-Lindström
  8. Lina Martinsson

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  1. Version published to 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114124
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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementConsent: The need for informed consent was waived since the research team only accessed pseudonymized data where it was not possible to identify individual patients.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    No key resources detected.

    Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    This study is not without limitations. First, the study population was restricted to those patients who had not been in contact with their psychiatric clinic during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. The reasons for not being in touch likely varied between the patients: some may not have been in touch because they had been feeling better after receiving treatment, or were in a stable phase. However, for other patients the reason for not being in touch with their clinic could have been a direct consequence of the pandemic or the societal measures taken to reduce transmission of the virus. Second, there is no data before the pandemic to serve as a reference point. It is likely that, at any given time, some patients will report a deterioration in psychiatric symptoms, for example. Without a direct comparison it is hard to assess whether the findings indicate that the situation has gotten worse or can be viewed as relatively stable. Third, the impact of COVID-19 and the policies implemented to reduce transmission of the virus vary between countries and regions within countries, making it difficult to generalize the current findings to other contexts. The long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with SMI is currently unknown but there is reason to believe that patients with SMI will be negatively affected. For example, this group of individuals may be particularly vulnerable to the long-term economic effects leading to unemployment and further isola...

    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.
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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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  3. Version published to 10.1101/2020.11.10.20229039v1 on medRxiv