Visuospatial processing impairment following mild COVID-19

  1. Jonas Jardim de Paula
  2. Rachel Elisa Rodrigues Pereira Paiva
  3. Danielle de Souza Costa
  4. Nathália Gualberto Souza e Silva
  5. Daniela Valadão Rosa
  6. José Nélio Januário
  7. Luciana Costa Silva
  8. Débora Marques de Miranda
  9. Marco Aurélio Romano-Silva

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Abstract

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 infection causes coronavirus disease 2019. COVID-19 was an unknown infection that reached pandemic proportions in 2020 and has shown to bring long-term negative consequences. Here, we used a case-control design to investigate the performance of relatively young people recovered from COVID 19 in objective neuropsychological tests. We found significant differences between groups for all measures of the ROCFT with a large difference in the copy, a moderate difference in immediate recall, and a large difference in delayed recall. No significant differences were found for the measures from all the other five neuropsychological tests used.About one quarter of COVID 19 patients were below the 10th percentile according to normative data.

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementConsent: All participants gave written consent.
    IRB: The study was approved by the local ethics board (registry: 3768820.1.0000.5149).
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablePost COVID-19 and control groups were composed of 38 female and 11 male participants each.

    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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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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