Fig. 5.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on time availability for paper and grant writing in the experience of the survey respondents involved in clinical autonomic research. We found no association between any respondent or autonomic center characteristic and the COVID-19 pre-pandemic-to-pandemic change in time availability for paper writing. Likewise, we observed no difference in the respondents or center characteristics between respondents reporting increased or diminished time available for grant writing during the first pandemic wave, but respondents reporting less time for grant writing during the following waves belonged to centers with longer autonomic function laboratory closures (6 ± 4 versus 4 ± 3 months, p = 0.036)