Mental health symptoms in a cohort of hospital healthcare workers following the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

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1. Version published to 10.1192/bjo.2020.150

   Dec 29, 2020
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   Oct 9, 2020

   SciScore for 10.1101/2020.10.02.20205674: (What is this?)

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

   Table 1: Rigor

   Institutional Review Board Statement	Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all participants and recorded electronically at the start of the study.
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.
   Sex as a biological variable	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

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   Data analysis: Data were collated using Microsoft Excel (Redmond, Washington, USA) and summarised as median (interquartile range) for non-normal data, and as proportions (percentage) for categorical data.	Microsoft Excel suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)
   Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS V.25 (IBM, New York, USA).	SPSS suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)

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   SciScore for 10.1101/2020.10.02.20205674: (What is this?)

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

   Table 1: Rigor

   Institutional Review Board Statement	Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all participants and recorded electronically at the start of the study.
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.
   Sex as a biological variable	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

   Software and Algorithms
   Sentences	Resources
   Data analysis: Data were collated using Microsoft Excel (Redmond, Washington, USA) and summarised as median (interquartile range) for non-normal data, and as proportions (percentage) for categorical data.	Microsoft Excel suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)
   Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS V.25 (IBM, New York, USA).	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:

   There were some limitations in our study. The time elapsed between traumatic exposure and the onset of symptoms is key to making a diagnosis of PTSD. However, the aim of the study was not to make diagnoses of mental health disorders but to screen the target population for the presence of clinically concerning symptoms. The survey was conducted relatively close to the duration of the UK’s Covid-19 pandemic peak. The elevated scores on the IES-R may be representative of an acute stress reaction which usually resolves within a few months. Further follow-up of these participants is required to ascertain the persistence of symptoms—a planned analysis by our study group. Our data is from a cross-sectional survey. Therefore, causal inferences cannot be made. Furthermore, the data were collected through a self-report questionnaire which is at risk of responder bias. There were also several strengths. This study is one of the first in the UK to report on the mental health impact of working during the Covid-19 pandemic on hospital staff. These findings may be generalisable to the wider UK population of hospital employees given the relatively large sample size and representative demographic sample (supplementary Table 3). During the Covid-19 pandemic, there were high prevalence rates of common mental health symptoms in hospital HCW in the UK, especially amongst those with a past history of mental health conditions. Occupational interventions such as adequate PPE and wellbeing support av...

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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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   Version published to 10.1101/2020.10.02.20205674v1 on medRxiv

   Oct 7, 2020