The MU Study of Seropositivity and Risk for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: Crucial Behavioral and Immunological Data from Midwestern College Students
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Abstract
Objective
We describe our Fall 2020 study of college students’ COVID-19 related behaviors, attitudes, and antibody test results.
Participants
The study included 1,446 randomly selected and self-enrolled undergraduate and graduate students from a midwestern university.
Methods
An online survey was distributed to a sample of students, between September and December 2020. A sub-group also participated in a SARS-CoV-2 antibody blood draw.
Results
Nearly half of students reported a prior COVID-19 test with 22% indicating a positive test, which represents an 11% positivity rate across all student participants. Of those who participated in antibody testing, 15.1% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Seventy-seven percent of participants said they would get vaccinated. One-third of students reported moderate to severe generalized anxiety disorder and 13% reported moderate to severe depression.
Conclusions
This study informed campus decisions in Fall 2020. The importance of effective public health messaging on campus should continue in the future.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2022.01.24.22269758: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: In mid-October, we also received MU Institutional Review Board (protocol#2028427) permission to allow individuals to self-enroll into the study. Sex as a biological variable Also, 69.2% of participants identified as female, 28.6% as male, and 1.8% as outside of the gender binary. Randomization The study was originally by invitation only; the MU administration periodically provided stratified, randomly drawn lists of student and employee email addresses for 950 undergraduates, 250 graduate/professional students, and 400 faculty/staff. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All blood and survey data were collected and stored … SciScore for 10.1101/2022.01.24.22269758: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: In mid-October, we also received MU Institutional Review Board (protocol#2028427) permission to allow individuals to self-enroll into the study. Sex as a biological variable Also, 69.2% of participants identified as female, 28.6% as male, and 1.8% as outside of the gender binary. Randomization The study was originally by invitation only; the MU administration periodically provided stratified, randomly drawn lists of student and employee email addresses for 950 undergraduates, 250 graduate/professional students, and 400 faculty/staff. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All blood and survey data were collected and stored in REDCap. REDCapsuggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)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.
Results from rtransparent:- Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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