Table 3 Reporting of ethical research conduct by study descriptors
Independent variables | Categories | Institutional approval | Access to community/research sites | Informed consent and/or assent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% yes | P-value | % yes | P-value | % yes | P-value | |||
Research participants | Composition | Internally displaced | 57.1 | 0.031 | 59.3 | 0.150 | 60.4 | 0.136 |
Refugees | 40.0 | 52.3 | 46.2 | |||||
Others | 12.5 | 25.0 | 37.5 | |||||
Age groups | Adults/ older adults | 46.3 | 0.197 | 56.5 | 0.622 | 51.9 | 0.810 | |
Children | 53.3 | 56.7 | 56.7 | |||||
All age groups | 50.0 | 46.2 | 57.7 | |||||
Research characteristics | Discipline | Bio-medical | 91.7 | < 0.001 | 91.7 | 0.001 | 83.3 | < 0.001 |
Public health | 54.4 | 60.2 | 63.1 | |||||
Social | 32.4 | 41.2 | 35.3 | |||||
Others | 6.7 | 20.0 | 6.7 | |||||
Methodology | Quantitative | 61.7 | 0.001 | 67.0 | < 0.001 | 64.9 | 0.001 | |
Qualitative | 26.8 | 30.4 | 33.9 | |||||
Both methodologies | 42.9 | 71.4 | 57.1 | |||||
Other descriptors | First author affiliation | Arab | 23.17 | 0.64 | 26.2 | 0.53 | 26.8 | 1.0 |
Non-Arab | 25.0 | 28.7 | 26.8 | |||||
Author collaboration | National | 55.9 | < 0.001 | 55.9 | < 0.001 | 70.6 | < 0.001 | |
Regional | 60.0 | 60.0 | 40.0 | |||||
International | 63.9 | 68.7 | 62.7 | |||||
Solo author | 9.5 | 26.2 | 23.8 | |||||
Funding source | National/Regional | 50.0 | < 0.001 | 62.5 | 0.161 | 37.5 | 0.019 | |
International | 64.7 | 58.8 | 62.7 | |||||
UN organizations | 80.0 | 80.0 | 80.0 | |||||
Mixed | 75.0 | 66.7 | 75.0 | |||||
Non-funded | 71.4 | 85.7 | 85.7 | |||||
Not Mentioned | 29.6 | 45.7 | 42.0 | |||||
Journal type | National | 0.0 | 0.423 | 50.0 | 0.875 | 50.0 | 0.995 | |
Regional | 30.8 | 61.5 | 53.8 | |||||
International | 50.3 | 54.4 | 53.7 | |||||
Journal submission guidelines | Code of Ethics | 57.4 | 0.001 | NA | NA | 60.9% | 0.011 | |
None | 27.1 | NA | 37.5% | |||||