Depression and Cognitive Impairment in a Spanish Sample of Psychoactive Substance Users Receiving Mental Health Care

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

It is a remarkable paper about depression and cognitive impairment in psychoactive substance users. However, several revisions are required as follows:

 

1. Most of all, the details for ethical approval of the study should be described.
2. A dignostic tool for psychoactive substance user should be accurately described.
3. The standardizarions of Spanish versions of psychometric assessment tools should be additionally described.
4. Statitical significance of P-value should be described.
5. Depressive symptoms and cognitive impairment of multiple drug users should be analyzed and described.
6. DSM-V should be changed into DSM-5
7. Limitations should be included in discussion section.

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors

I would like to congratulate you on your article and express my admiration for your efforts and endeavors in relation to the manuscript "The Impacts of COVID-19 on Technological and Polytechnic University Students".  

I appreciate the structure of the study as well as your research and its processing.
I also appreciate the structure of the system, which is described in Figure 1.

A certain shortcoming of the study is narrow publication focus on studies in Spanish, and therefore I suggest you to add studies of several authors, who´s work will expand (by reference) your study with other assumptions and observations that deal with the issue.

Ružić-Baf  et al. https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2021.2.399.411  (Croatia)   Kobylarek et al. https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2021.2.5.11  (Poland)  Pooja Mann  et al. https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2021.2.361.374  (India)   

 I recommend publishing the text after completion.    RK  

Author Response

REVIEWER 2

Dear authors

I would like to congratulate you on your article and express my admiration for your efforts and endeavors in relation to the manuscript "The Impacts of COVID-19 on Technological and Polytechnic University Students".  

I appreciate the structure of the study as well as your research and its processing.
I also appreciate the structure of the system, which is described in Figure 1.

A certain shortcoming of the study is narrow publication focus on studies in Spanish, and therefore I suggest you to add studies of several authors, who´s work will expand (by reference) your study with other assumptions and observations that deal with the issue.

I recommend publishing the text after completion.    RK  

Following the reviewer's recommendations, we have included some recently published international citations of the evidence found on depression and cognitive impairment experienced by substance users.

Bourque, J., & Potvin, S. Cannabis and cognitive functioning: from acute to residual effects, from randomized controlled trials to prospective designs. Frontiers in Psychiatry 2021,12, 919.

Wendel, L. K., Daedelow, L., Kaminski, J., Banaschewski, T., Millenet, S., Bokde, A. L., & Walter, H. Residual effects of cannabis-use on neuropsychological functioning. Cognitive Development 2021, 59, 101072.

Choi, N. G., DiNitto, D. M., Marti, C. N., & Choi, B. Y. Cannabis and binge alcohol use among older individuals with major depressive episode, Substance Abuse 2022 43(1), 657-665, 

 

Reviewer 3 Report

In Fig.1 dark 'Cocaine' bar shows wrong dispersion - rather IQR instead of SD. Must be checked.

Fig.2 is poorly designed - columns too wide, font size in axis markings too small. Must be corrected. 

Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

It is well revised according to reviewers' comments.