Title: The Impact of the COVID-19 Surge After the End of China's Zero-COVID Policy on the
Health-Related Quality of Life of IBD Patients
Version: 1 Date: 22 Jul 2024
Reviewer's report:
This is a well written study describing the experience of 224 patients with IBD and their quality
of life in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are a few critical limitations the author
team  should include when discussing shortcomings of the study:
-  Given this was a cross-sectional survey, and no pre-pandemic comparator survey data is
included, it is not possible to confirm that these data are specifically related/due to the pandemic
alone
- Given there was not a parallel survey conducted in healthy controls without IBD, it is not
possible to confirm that these results are worse than what would have been elicited from
participants without IBD
Additionally, the authors state their results confirm individuals with UC have higher QoL scores
than those with Crohn's, however their number of UC participants is likely too low to make this
statement.
Title: The Impact of the COVID-19 Surge After the End of China's Zero-COVID Policy on the
Health-Related Quality of Life of IBD Patients
Version: 1 Date: 22 Jul 2024
Reviewer's report:
This is a well written study describing the experience of 224 patients with IBD and their quality
of life in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are a few critical limitations the author
team  should include when discussing shortcomings of the study:
-  Given this was a cross-sectional survey, and no pre-pandemic comparator survey data is
included, it is not possible to confirm that these data are specifically related/due to the pandemic
alone
- Given there was not a parallel survey conducted in healthy controls without IBD, it is not
possible to confirm that these results are worse than what would have been elicited from
participants without IBD
Additionally, the authors state their results confirm individuals with UC have higher QoL scores
than those with Crohn's, however their number of UC participants is likely too low to make this
statement.
Please review this paper.
user
Title: The Impact of the COVID-19 Surge After the End of China's Zero-COVID Policy on the
Health-Related Quality of Life of IBD Patients
Version: 1 Date: 22 Jul 2024
Reviewer's report:
This is a well written study describing the experience of 224 patients with IBD and their quality
of life in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are a few critical limitations the author
team  should include when discussing shortcomings of the study:
-  Given this was a cross-sectional survey, and no pre-pandemic comparator survey data is
included, it is not possible to confirm that these data are specifically related/due to the pandemic
alone
- Given there was not a parallel survey conducted in healthy controls without IBD, it is not
possible to confirm that these results are worse than what would have been elicited from
participants without IBD
Additionally, the authors state their results confirm individuals with UC have higher QoL scores
than those with Crohn's, however their number of UC participants is likely too low to make this
statement.
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