Young age, student status and reported non-binary gender associate strongly with decreased functioning during Covid-19 pandemic in a university community

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   Jun 1, 2022

   SciScore for 10.1101/2022.05.30.22275757: (What is this?)

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

   Table 1: Rigor

   Ethics	IRB: The ethical committee of the University of Turku approved the study protocol. Consent: All study subjects gave their written consent to the study.
   Sex as a biological variable	Questions: Gender question included four options 1) Female (Binary Female, BF), 2) Male (Binary Male, BM), 3) Other, 4) I do not wish to tell.
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

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   The data were analysed using SPSS software (26.0 for Windows).	SPSS suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)

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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 …

   SciScore for 10.1101/2022.05.30.22275757: (What is this?)

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

   Table 1: Rigor

   Ethics	IRB: The ethical committee of the University of Turku approved the study protocol. Consent: All study subjects gave their written consent to the study.
   Sex as a biological variable	Questions: Gender question included four options 1) Female (Binary Female, BF), 2) Male (Binary Male, BM), 3) Other, 4) I do not wish to tell.
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

   Software and Algorithms
   Sentences	Resources
   The data were analysed using SPSS software (26.0 for Windows).	SPSS suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)

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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:

   Advantages and limitations: In addition to important and actual findings related to the Covid-19 pandemic, some strengths as well as limitations should be discussed. The low response rate (7.4%) clearly limits representativeness of the results. On the other hand, the sample size became large enough for studying also small groups of participants and possible associations between various factors and functioning. The survey was not very long but it included also sensitive questions, which may have reduced individuals’ willingness to response. In client satisfaction surveys with no incentives, response rate often remains on the level of 10% or under (PeoplePulse, 2021). During the Covid-19 pandemic, the university students and personnel received several other surveys, thus it is probable that they were tired to response to a new survey. Additionally, the fact that this survey was carried out in May, when the term was near to end, may have affected low response rate. The study focused on people of university community, who do not represent the general population. On the other hand, the study sample represents a quite homogenous population, which faced equal and long-lasting Covid-19 lockdown with its consequences, when the differences in FUNCT between sub-groups of the sample, were mainly due to sub-group qualities than to different impacts of the pandemic. The question on gender included only four options (Female, Male, Other, I do not wish to tell) and all except reported female...

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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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   Results from rtransparent:

   • 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.
   • Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.

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

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   Version published to 10.1101/2022.05.30.22275757v1 on medRxiv

   May 30, 2022