Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: an observational study
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Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: 20 All cohorts had ethical approvals from respective national or regional ethics committees (see Supplemental Table S1) with varying numbers of waves of data collections from March 2020 through August 2021. Sex as a biological variable Covariates were the following (see Supplemental Table S1): Gender (male; female; other), age (continuous, in years), education (compulsory or less (no formal education); upper secondary, vocational, or other; bachelor’s/diploma university degree; master’s or Ph.D., not available in Omtanke2020), relationship status (in a relationship; single, not available in EstBB-C19), body mass index (BMI, <25, normal weight or underweight; 25—30, overweight; >30, … SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.13.21267368: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: 20 All cohorts had ethical approvals from respective national or regional ethics committees (see Supplemental Table S1) with varying numbers of waves of data collections from March 2020 through August 2021. Sex as a biological variable Covariates were the following (see Supplemental Table S1): Gender (male; female; other), age (continuous, in years), education (compulsory or less (no formal education); upper secondary, vocational, or other; bachelor’s/diploma university degree; master’s or Ph.D., not available in Omtanke2020), relationship status (in a relationship; single, not available in EstBB-C19), body mass index (BMI, <25, normal weight or underweight; 25—30, overweight; >30, obese), smoking status (never, former, current), history of diagnosis of any psychiatric disorder (yes; no), chronic medical condition (defined as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, chronic kidney disease (not available in DBDS), cancer, and immunosuppressive state (not available in DBDS) or immunosuppressive therapy (not available in DBDS) (no conditions; one condition; two conditions; > two conditions), response period (April June 2020; July September 2020; October December 2020; January March 2021; April August 2021). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
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Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:In contrast, the persistent symptoms of depression and anxiety among individuals bedridden for seven days or longer may be due to continued physical long-COVID symptoms where functional limitation, loneliness, and lack of social contact (because of isolation) may cause worry and sense of helplessness.13 Alternatively, the inflammatory processes among patients suffering severe acute illness could also affect the risk of persistent mental health symptoms.4,11 Indeed, inflammation associated with chronic34 and infectious35 diseases have previously been linked with development of mental morbidities, particularly depression. Such mental morbidities have also been reported to persist after reduction in inflammation.36 While COVID-19 patients suffering a severe acute disease course had persistently increased risk of both anxiety and depression throughout the study period of the present study, individuals with a mild disease course had persistently lower risk of adverse mental health outcomes compared with the individuals without a COVID-19 diagnosis throughout the first year after infection. Several factors may contribute to this lower risk of mental morbidities among COVID-19 infected individuals with mild disease course. For example, individuals with a mild COVID-19 infection were able to return to somewhat more normal lives after the benign infection as compared with their more severely impacted counterparts who still could be restrained by fear of being infected in addition to o...
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