Sustained negative mental health outcomes among healthcare workers over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study

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   Nov 30, 2021

   SciScore for 10.1101/2021.11.21.21266594: (What is this?)

   Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

   Table 1: Rigor

   Ethics	IRB: It received approval from the Hospital La Paz Ethics Committee (Madrid, Spain) and was ratified by the local ethics committees from the participating sites. Consent: Statistical analyses: First, we removed baseline respondents who provided informed consent but did not go on to initiate the survey (n = 95).
   Sex as a biological variable	Sociodemographic variables: Age in years, gender (male, female), educational level (primary, secondary, or university studies), and type of job.
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.

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   All analyses were performed using packages dplyr, gtsummary, flextable, ggplot2, …

   SciScore for 10.1101/2021.11.21.21266594: (What is this?)

   Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

   Table 1: Rigor

   Ethics	IRB: It received approval from the Hospital La Paz Ethics Committee (Madrid, Spain) and was ratified by the local ethics committees from the participating sites. Consent: Statistical analyses: First, we removed baseline respondents who provided informed consent but did not go on to initiate the survey (n = 95).
   Sex as a biological variable	Sociodemographic variables: Age in years, gender (male, female), educational level (primary, secondary, or university studies), and type of job.
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

   Software and Algorithms
   Sentences	Resources
   All analyses were performed using packages dplyr, gtsummary, flextable, ggplot2, psych, multinom of R Studio for Mac (Version 1.2.5042).	ggplot2 suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)

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   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).

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   Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:

   Our study has limitations. First, we used a non-random sample that increases probability of some degree of collider bias and hinders transportability of study results across settings. Also, and in line with other multi-center studies (1,4), response rates varied significantly across sites and facilities, and the possibility of self-selection bias cannot be ruled out. Nevertheless, the baseline sociodemographic characteristics and mental health outcomes were however similar to another Spanish study with a larger and somewhat more representative sample of HCWs (1) and to other, similar European studies (2,3). Second, because of the use of observational data, effect estimates are potentially subject to some degree of residual confounding. Notably, substantial residual confounding is unlikely given that we included measures on all major individual- and region-level confounders and that estimates from crude and adjusted associations are roughly similar. Moreover, sensitivity analyses exploring differences between subsamples (e.g., full vs. partial respondents) and adjusting for baseline measurements of mental health outcomes obtained similar results, suggesting that our models were robust to different model specifications. Third, two thirds of baseline respondents were lost to follow-up. Dropout was independent from age, gender, and mental health outcomes at baseline, but people lost to follow were slightly more concerned about getting the virus and infecting their loved ones (dat...

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   Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

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   Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

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   Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

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   • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
   • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
   • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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   Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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   Version published to 10.1101/2021.11.21.21266594v1 on medRxiv

   Nov 24, 2021