Family responsibilities and mental health of kindergarten educators during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Ontario, Canada
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IRB: All methods and procedures were approved by the University Research Ethics Board.Sex as a biological variable Previous research suggests that there are significant differences in reported depression and anxiety in men and women, such that women tend to score higher on both outcomes (e.g., Faravelli et al., 2013). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All preliminary and primary analyses were conducted using the statistical software IBM SPSS version 25 … SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.11.21257057: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics Consent: Participants provided consent by clicking “yes” in the appropriate box located below the study information on the survey’s first page.
IRB: All methods and procedures were approved by the University Research Ethics Board.Sex as a biological variable Previous research suggests that there are significant differences in reported depression and anxiety in men and women, such that women tend to score higher on both outcomes (e.g., Faravelli et al., 2013). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All preliminary and primary analyses were conducted using the statistical software IBM SPSS version 25 (IBM Corp., 2017). SPSSsuggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)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, Limitations and Future Directions: To our knowledge, our study is the first to investigate the associations between family responsibilities and mental health outcomes of a large sample of kindergarten educators during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study’s major strength is that it demonstrates the burden of multiple responsibilities and its association with poor mental health among educators responsible for teaching children in the youngest elementary school grades. Nevertheless, our study has a number of limitations that should be mentioned. Whereas a strength of our study is that our respondents came from all but one Ontario school division/authority, it was not possible for us to assess the representativeness of this sample. Because our study only included kindergarten educators, it is likely that these findings might differ for teachers of children in older grades. Future research should examine similar associations in teachers of all grade levels. Moreover, our study was cross-sectional and therefore we could not establish a causal relationship between family responsibility and symptoms of depression and anxiety. We also we unable to examine whether any pre-existing mental health conditions may have contributed to our results. Our study was conducted at a specific period in time and our results can only be interpreted in the context of the spring of 2020, during the first round of the COVID-19-related school closures in Ontario, Canada. As the landscape of the CO...
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