Insomnia episodes, new-onset pharmacological treatments, and other sleep disturbances during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide cross-sectional study in Brazilian health care professionals

  1. Luciano F. Drager
  2. Daniela V. Pachito
  3. Claudia R.C. Moreno
  4. Almir R. Tavares
  5. Silvia G. Conway
  6. Márcia Assis
  7. Danilo A. Sguillar
  8. Gustavo A. Moreira
  9. Andrea Bacelar
  10. Pedro R. Genta

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  1. Version published to 10.5664/jcsm.9570
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: This cross-sectional study was reviewed and approved by the Hospital das Clínicas Institutional Review Board (CAAE: 31750920.9.0000.0068) and was exempted from a consent form.
    Consent: This cross-sectional study was reviewed and approved by the Hospital das Clínicas Institutional Review Board (CAAE: 31750920.9.0000.0068) and was exempted from a consent form.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power AnalysisA post hoc power calculation based on our main findings is presented in the results section.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Graphs were built with the ggplot2 package (Wickham, 2009).
    ggplot2
    suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)

    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:
    The present investigation has limitations mainly related to the pragmatic approach for participant selection and participation to be addressed. The absence of probabilistic samples and the voluntary nature for participation may have introduced bias related to the severity of sleep disturbances, since individuals with more severe sleep disturbances may have felt more motivated to provide answers to the survey. However, we may argue that a significant proportion of participants did not report the main outcomes nor initiated medical treatments for insomnia. The survey’s succinct nature (approximately 4 minutes to be completed) prevented low adherence in a scenario of busy work schedules but failed to provide detailed analysis of some sleep complaints. Although it was clearly stated that the survey was directed to healthcare professionals, irrespectively of their occupation, it is not possible to refute the possibility of having obtained responses from different occupational groups. The large sample size and the consistency observed in the abovementioned previous investigations may mitigate the importance of this limitation. Also, our study did not investigate possible differences between healthcare workers of public or private sectors. The magnitude of our outcomes in health professionals is consistent with the previous literature. The high number of responses collected in such a short period represents one of the strengths of this study. Complete responses were obtained from al...

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    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.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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