Trauma-spectrum symptoms among the Italian general population in the time of the COVID-19 outbreak
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.01.20118935: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All analyses were performed using Stata 16® (StataCorp). StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)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:This study has several limitations. It is not a representative population sample. Social-network sampling strategy has its pros and cons. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was essential to collect a large sample in …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.01.20118935: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All analyses were performed using Stata 16® (StataCorp). StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)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:This study has several limitations. It is not a representative population sample. Social-network sampling strategy has its pros and cons. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was essential to collect a large sample in a very short time, as a part of a long-term monitoring programme of mental health outcomes in the general population (Rossi et al., 2020b). However, this web-based survey may have introduced a number of potential biases, including self-selection bias as suggested by the large disproportion in the gender ratio and the unusually high rate of self-reported lifetime prevalence of a history of mental illness or psychiatric/psychological treatment at around 28%. It might indicate that an already more vulnerable group in the population is more inclined to fill in a survey on mental health effects of the pandemic, and thus lead to an overestimation the prevalence of traumatic-spectrum symptoms. Furthermore, only a limited number of instruments could be included in the survey. Ideally a larger battery would have been included to assess concurrent and divergent validity of the GPS. Also, self-report instruments inherently introduce measuring biases, especially in the absence of normative data. Another major limitation is the absence of clinical interviews or other normative cut-offs, that would have allowed to estimate a prevalence of PTSD or clinically relevant PTSS. A strength of the study is its large sample size, and the timely data collection around the peak o...
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