Dynamics of psychological responses to COVID-19 in India: A longitudinal study
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Institutional Review Board Statement IACUC: Ethical considerations: The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar.
Consent: Email addresses of participants who gave consent for follow-up were collected as identifying information.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 All our models were run in STATA version 12 [34]. STATAsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)All participants were informed about their voluntary participation through the introduction section in the Google and Microsoft forms. Googlesuggested: …SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.12.20129791: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IACUC: Ethical considerations: The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar.
Consent: Email addresses of participants who gave consent for follow-up were collected as identifying information.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 All our models were run in STATA version 12 [34]. STATAsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)All participants were informed about their voluntary participation through the introduction section in the Google and Microsoft forms. Googlesuggested: (Google, RRID:SCR_017097)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:Limitation and strengths: The study has several limitations which we acknowledge. First, the survey was conducted online limiting the sample to only those who had access to the Internet. However, the online method of recruitment helped us collect data from a diverse sample within a short time, given the restriction of physical mobility due to the lockdown. Second, we could not follow-up with the majority of our participants during the study. This was likely because we relied on only one way of communication, their email, for follow-up. In the chaos of the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges it brought, the participants might have missed the emails related to the follow-ups. However, to our knowledge, this is the first web-based longitudinal study from India capturing key insights of psychological well-being over time during a lockdown that was periodically extended. Third, our sample size of 159 participants was modest; yet, it allowed us to analyze the changes in the psychological outcomes during the lockdown with several statistically significant results. Fourth, since the survey was in English, all participants who volunteered were comfortable in English and unsurprisingly 89% had some college education. Therefore, the results cannot be generalized to the whole of India. However, we found policy-relevant results showing an increase of anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms in a relatively well-educated sample. We argue that the relatively underprivileged (socially as we...
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