Female gender and knowing a person positive for COVID-19 significantly increases fear levels in the Cuban population
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Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The study design was approved by the ethics committee of the Department of Psychology of the Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Cuba.
Consent: All participants provided informed consent prior to participating. 2.2. Measures: 2.3.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
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Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Limitations of the study This research is not without limitations. First, this is a cross-sectional …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.14.21253561: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The study design was approved by the ethics committee of the Department of Psychology of the Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Cuba.
Consent: All participants provided informed consent prior to participating. 2.2. Measures: 2.3.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: Thank you for sharing your data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Limitations of the study This research is not without limitations. First, this is a cross-sectional study so it is difficult to accurately elucidate causal relationships between gender, and interpersonal proximity to COVID-19 patients and fear of COVID-19. Second, our study did not control which participants were in quarantine zones and which were not. Quarantine can amplify negative psychological reactions to COVID-19 (Rossi et al., 2020). On the other hand, although the sample is large, most of the participants (75.1%) correspond to the central area of the country, which implies that the results could probably describe the population of this region of the country in particular. Additionally, in our sample the presence of mental illnesses was not controlled. Subjects with a mental disorder have been reported to be at higher risk of negative outcomes because of COVID-19 pandemic with respect to the general population (Carmassi et al., 2020). Conclusions and future directions In our study, we aimed to explore the relationship between sociodemographic factors and fear of COVID-19 in a Cuban population. We identified that gender and knowing a person positive for COVID-19 significantly increases fear levels in the Cuban population. In future studies, it is important to explore other predictors of the negative impact of COVID-19 on mental health in the Cuban population, such as age, socioeconomic status, exposure to the media (television, digital social networks and print media), ...
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