Social media and smartphone app use predicts maintenance of physical activity during Covid-19 enforced isolation in psychiatric outpatients

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    Institutional Review Board StatementConsent: Data and code availability statement: Data are not freely publicly available due to lack of participant consent for public sharing, but are available from the authors upon request.
    IRB: Both studies received ethical approval from the Fundación Jimenez Diaz Hospital Institutional Review Board, and all participants provided written informed consent.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

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    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    Our study has several important limitations. Consistent with previous observations, the predictive (cross-lagged) associations we observed between measures were substantially smaller than autocorrelation effects (18). Although fixed effect estimates for temporal models reported here were modest, the relatively large standard deviations of the random effects estimates indicate that the strength of these effects may vary significantly across individuals (e.g. fixed effects estimate of 0.088 with random effects SD of 0.159 for social -> nonsocial app use; and fixed effect estimate of 0.067 with random effects SD of 0.079 for nonsocial app use -> step count; Table S4). Our sample size did not allow us to break down users by important between-subjects variables such as psychiatric diagnosis, age group, presence of a Covid-19 risk comorbidity, or household status, which might reasonably be expected to affect both baseline behaviour and moderate the impact of lockdown. If and how this pattern varies across these important between-subjects dimensions should be addressed in future research. Further, by focusing on total daily time as the unit of analysis for smartphone use, we may be masking more fine-grained effects of application type and usage patterns – including differential effects of active communication/information-gathering and more passive browsing styles on mood (43–46). Under our chosen analysis framework, effects that occur at faster timescale will be classified as contem...

    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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