Longitudinal study about low back pain, mental health, and access to healthcare system during COVID-19 pandemic: protocol of an ambispective cohort
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Abstract
This study aims to investigate the effects of physical activity before, during, and after social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic on low back pain (LBP), mental health and healthcare access. The PAMPA Cohort ( P rospective Study A bout M ental and P hysical He a lth) is a state-level ambispective longitudinal observational study that will be conducted in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. An online-based questionnaire will be used to assess LBP, mental health, healthcare access and physical activity at four time points: 1) pre-COVID-19 social distancing, 2) during COVID-19 social distancing, 3) 6 months and 4) 12 months after baseline. A proportional sample size calculation was conducted, and the final sample size was estimated in 1,767 people, distributed in seven state regions. Participants will be recruited by a four-arm approach: contact with universities, social media, local media and personal contacts. Descriptive analyzes will be reported as mean or proportion and respective 95% confidence interval (CI), when appropriate. Comparison between pre- and during COVID-19 social distancing, and after baseline assessments will be performed using two-way ANOVA with repeated measures. Proportions will be compared by Chi-squared test.
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Study design: The study protocol was approved by the institutional research ethics board of the Superior School of Physical Education of the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil (protocol: 4.093.170).
Consent: Informed consent form: The first question is whether the participant accepts to participate in the study.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Socioeconomic information: Questions on age, gender (male, female, other/prefer not to mention), city of residence, ethnicity (white, black, yellow, mixed, indigenous, other), marital status (with or with no partner) and number of people living … SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.22.20160309: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Study design: The study protocol was approved by the institutional research ethics board of the Superior School of Physical Education of the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil (protocol: 4.093.170).
Consent: Informed consent form: The first question is whether the participant accepts to participate in the study.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Socioeconomic information: Questions on age, gender (male, female, other/prefer not to mention), city of residence, ethnicity (white, black, yellow, mixed, indigenous, other), marital status (with or with no partner) and number of people living in the same household will be asked. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
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: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.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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