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Variations in the Mood States during the Different Phases of COVID-19’s Lockdown in Young Athletes

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(17), 9326; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179326
by Abraham Batalla-Gavalda 1, Pau Cecilia-Gallego 1,2, Fernando Revillas-Ortega 2,3 and Jose Vicente Beltran-Garrido 1,*
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2:
Nicoletta Vegni
Reviewer 3: Anonymous
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(17), 9326; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179326
Submission received: 29 June 2021 / Revised: 22 August 2021 / Accepted: 1 September 2021 / Published: 3 September 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exercise and Health during COVID-19)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

I think the manuscript by Gavalda et al. for the most part is very well written. However, I believe the novelty for this type of research is low at the moment.  At this point in time we understand what the pandemic has done to mental health and how lack of physical activity plays a role.

I believe the number of subjects for this study are too low and there are too few subjects per group to make comparisions between sports and sex.

You no males in your handball group making sport comparisons even more inappropriate as your results could be skewed by that fact.

Although not novel data this study would be publishable if there were a large sample size.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The work is adequately written and clearly presented to the reader. The topic is quite interesting, dwelling on the impact of lockdown on the mood of athletes.

Despite these, there are some weaknesses

  • The way in which the subjects in the sample were selected is not made clear
  • The only instrument used is a Spanish one, which makes it difficult to replicate the study in populations of different ethnicity. Furthermore, this does not allow the results presented to be extended to different populations.
  • Other variables that could have been useful for a better analysis of the differences between the groups of athletes involved are not analysed.

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Reviewer 3 Report

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The novelty of these data are low. Further your sample size is very small for this type of study. You have changed very little from your original version.

Author Response

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