A 16-month longitudinal investigation of risk and protective factors for mental health outcomes throughout three national lockdowns and a mass vaccination campaign: Evidence from a weighted Israeli sample during COVID-19

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    Table 1: Rigor

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    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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    This study has several limitations. First, the sampling was not random, but rather a “snowball” recruitment. Although by weighting the data we have narrowed the error margins, it does not neutralize the selection bias completely (Pierce, McManus, et al., 2020). Second, although our cross-sectional data relies on a large sample, our longitudinal data relies on a much smaller body due to high rates of attrition. Although this might expose our study to II type errors and biases, to the best of our knowledge our study is still the first endeavor to examine so many participants over many time points in Israel. Considering the relatively small population and the limited body of current studies on COVID-19 in the country, we believe that our data shed much needed light on the situation in Israel during the first year and a half of COVID-19. Lastly, our study employed online crowdsourcing data gathering, using self-report measures with their inherent limitations (Fadnes, Taube, & Tylleskär, 2009). Still, arguably the robustness of the findings we report, replicated for different time points, cohorts and analyses, mitigates most doubts regarding generalizability of our findings. This study expands our understanding of the unique and dynamic influence of COVID-19 on the public’s mental health. Two years into this ongoing global crisis, we recognize that the mental needs and risks of the public varies at different points in time, and interacts with lockdown orders and the virus’s spread...

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    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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