The effects of messaging on long COVID expectations: An online experiment.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2022.01.18.22269467: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization This resulted in eight conditions, with each participant being randomly allocated to one condition. Blinding Participants and researchers were blinded to the randomisation. Power Analysis Power calculations using G*Power 3.1 (25) required a sample size of 1014 for a 2 × 2 × 2 design, achieving 95% power to detect a small effect size (f=0.1). Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Power calculations using G*Power 3.1 (25) required a sample size of 1014 for a 2 × 2 × 2 design, achieving 95% power to detect a small effect size (f=0.1). G*Powersuggested: (G*Power, RRID:SCR_013726)Results from OddPub: We did not …
SciScore for 10.1101/2022.01.18.22269467: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization This resulted in eight conditions, with each participant being randomly allocated to one condition. Blinding Participants and researchers were blinded to the randomisation. Power Analysis Power calculations using G*Power 3.1 (25) required a sample size of 1014 for a 2 × 2 × 2 design, achieving 95% power to detect a small effect size (f=0.1). Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Power calculations using G*Power 3.1 (25) required a sample size of 1014 for a 2 × 2 × 2 design, achieving 95% power to detect a small effect size (f=0.1). G*Powersuggested: (G*Power, RRID:SCR_013726)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 and Future Research: This study is novel in using an experimental design to assess the effect of different messages about Long COVID on expectations of illness outcomes. A limitation of this research is that the study used a design which required participants to imagine themselves in a hypothetical scenario and report their illness expectations, based on the information provided. While the results are in line with previous research, including that carried out in real-world contexts, caution should therefore be taken when extrapolating current findings to a real-world context. A related limitation is that the hypothetical nature of the experiment meant that we were unable to measure actual health outcomes. While previous research into other conditions demonstrates the relationship between negative illness expectations and adverse health outcomes, the area would benefit from further research to explore the relationship between negative expectations and Long COVID health outcomes, potentially using a longitudinal design. A final limitation is that, although the sample was representative of the UK population, given that the majority UK population are white British, the findings are less generalisable to other ethnicities. This study did not intend to explore any demographic differences, and we found no significant differences in demographic variables between groups, and so it is unlikely that demographic variables affected the outcomes of the study. However, further r...
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.
Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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