Immediate Effects of COVID-19 Outbreak on Psychiatric Outpatients: Post-traumatic Stress and Influencing Factors
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Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: An electronic informed consent form was presented on the first page of the survey citing the purposes and the voluntary nature of the survey, and that all information provided by the participants would be kept confidential, and they could withdraw from the survey at any time.
IRB: The Ethics Committee of Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty approved this study. 2.1. Subjects: We sent online invitations to each patient who had visited the above department’s outpatient clinics in the preceding three months and who were aged 18 years or above and who could be contacted via WhatsApp messages.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Se… SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.12.20173468: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: An electronic informed consent form was presented on the first page of the survey citing the purposes and the voluntary nature of the survey, and that all information provided by the participants would be kept confidential, and they could withdraw from the survey at any time.
IRB: The Ethics Committee of Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty approved this study. 2.1. Subjects: We sent online invitations to each patient who had visited the above department’s outpatient clinics in the preceding three months and who were aged 18 years or above and who could be contacted via WhatsApp messages.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 Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS Statistic 23.0 (IBM SPSS Statistics, New York, United States). SPSSsuggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)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:However, there are several limitations to our study. First, we used a convenience sample, and caution must be exercised in generalization of our findings to the broader population of patients with psychiatric disorders. Second, this was a cross-sectional study which limits our ability to infer causality and also to conclude about the long term mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Third, this study depended on self-report of patients instead of a structured clinical interview which could provide a better picture of the psychological distress in our patients. Finally, subjects in this study were mostly from an urban area, and this can limit generalization of the findings to subjects from rural environments. In summary, patients with psychiatric disorders reported a high rate of psychological distress as an immediate response to the COVID-19 outbreak. In parallel, a significant number of patients described that their psychological status worsened during the outbreak. PTSD symptoms and comorbid depression, as well as anxiety, and impaired sleep comprise a substantial part of the distress described by these individuals. Various personal (i.e., age, educational attainment, gender, psychiatric diagnosis, chronic medical disease), behavioral (i.e., duration of media exposure) and social factors (i.e., infection prevalence in the social vicinity, and job loss during the outbreak) are likely to mediate the mental health effects in the context of COVID-19.
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