Is It Just About Physical Health? An Online Cross-Sectional Study Exploring the Psychological Distress Among University Students in Jordan in the Midst of COVID-19 Pandemic
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.14.20102343: (What is this?)
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Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: The students who were available and voluntarily willing to be involved in the study could open a link to get an information letter about the study, eligibility criteria, and informed consent as a prerequisite to proceed in participation.
IRB: Ethical approval was granted by the Institutional Review Board at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan.Randomization The questionnaire was distributed across seven randomly selected Facebook groups of university students in Jordan and academic groups on WhatsApp messenger for a duration of one day. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable In addition, non-parametric tests were used … SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.14.20102343: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: The students who were available and voluntarily willing to be involved in the study could open a link to get an information letter about the study, eligibility criteria, and informed consent as a prerequisite to proceed in participation.
IRB: Ethical approval was granted by the Institutional Review Board at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan.Randomization The questionnaire was distributed across seven randomly selected Facebook groups of university students in Jordan and academic groups on WhatsApp messenger for a duration of one day. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable In addition, non-parametric tests were used including Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test to compare the mean of total K10 distress scores between males and females while Spearman’s rank correlation to test the relationship between age and total K10 distress scores. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources For a student to be able to participate in this study, all the following eligibility criteria were implemented: 2.2 Instruments and Measures: The online questionnaire was created using Google Forms provided by Google (tm) and was constructed in modern standard Arabic. Googlesuggested: (Google, RRID:SCR_017097)2.3 Data Management and Analysis: Completed questionnaires were extracted from Google Forms as an Excel sheet and were then incorporated into STATA IC 16.1 STATAsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)1 (StataCorp LLC., StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)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:Still, there are limitations that should be carefully taken into consideration when interpreting the results and include (i) using a non-probabilistic convenience sampling, which affects the representativness of our sample and limits the generalizability of our results. However, this sampling strategy was believed to fit in lieu of the current circumstances of the nationwide curfew, the closure of all universities and colleges in the country and shifting to online platforms (ii) the majority of respondents were undergraduates; we could have seen different results if our sample had more postgraduate students, and (iii) We had a relatively small sample size which could be attributed to the limited period of data collection. There was a technical difficulty to follow up the survey and keep it visible to students within social media groups due to the large number of academic enquiries posted on these groups; thus, enforced our survey link to lose its visibility among the numerous recent posts. Also, the busy schedule of students (in the midst of a new distance learning strategy) might have affected their interests to participate in the survey (iv) The survey represented self reported states thus, over reporting or underreporting of psychological status could be expected, (v) The inherent limitation of cross-sectional studies which prevent assessing temporality of events i.e psychogoligcal distress could be present prior to the pandemic and just escalated during it, and lastly, (v...
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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