Curtailing Covid-19 on a dollar-a-day in Malawi: Role of community leadership for shaping public health and economic responses to the pandemic
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.16.21253632: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. 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:In interpreting the above results, it is important to acknowledge some limitations. Our analyses do not formally establish causation, which would be very challenging in the context where this study is conducted and the research …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.16.21253632: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. 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:In interpreting the above results, it is important to acknowledge some limitations. Our analyses do not formally establish causation, which would be very challenging in the context where this study is conducted and the research questions we attempt to answer. Yet, the consistent patterns of findings across multiple outcomes and specifications is suggestive of potential underlying causal path-ways. Moreover, all our outcomes, including Covid-19 knowledge and prevention behavior, are necessarily self-reported, and therefore subject to “social desirability” bias. This limitation is inherent as in-person surveys and direct observation were not feasible during the time-period of this study, and indirect measures (e.g., based on cell phone mobility data) are not viable in a rural Malawi context where cell phone ownership continues to be uncommon (albeit growing). Also, notwithstanding the “success” that we highlight in terms of curtailing Covid-19 infections and mortality in Malawi, the social and economic impacts of the pandemic are severe and possibly lasting. For example, a substantial fraction of the MLSFH respondents reduced non-food consumption as a result from Covid-19, and about 61% reported worries about having enough food to eat. For more than half of the interviewed respondents (55%), the economic situation deteriorated compared to the previous year. Worries about access to health care for NCDs and other medical needs such as malaria treatment or HIV/AIDS care were also ...
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.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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