Khadem-Rezaiyan Majid, Dadgarmoghaddam Maliheh
Dept. of Community Medicine and Public Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Iran J Public Health. 2017 Oct;46(10):1374-1378.
Cheating rate is rising and engages newer methods. This study performed to estimate the rate of research misconduct in the thesis of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students in 2015.
In this cross sectional study, all undergraduate and postgraduate medical students graduated during the study period in 2015, from the School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran were asked to fill a small checklist anonymously. It consisted of two demographic questions and two other ones for estimation of research misconduct. All three major types of research misconduct were explained in the checklist. We used the Randomized Response Technique for sensitive question in this survey. We asked the respondent to choose one question randomly and answer to it. The probability of selection of each question was equal.
There were 149 filled questionnaires out of which 44 (31%) were graduated for General Practitioner, 63 (44%) for Residency, 31(21%) for Master Degree and 6 (4%) for Ph.D. Fifty-two percent (75) were male. More than half of participants were graduated between 2011 and 2012. The majority of participants were native (104, 81%). Undergraduate students had an estimation of 19% research misconduct in performing the thesis while this was 26% of postgraduate students. Males were nearly two times comparing to females in this issue (30% vs. 16%).
This high estimation must be considered in future policy making about observing strictly on researches.
学术造假率不断上升且手段日益翻新。本研究旨在估算2015年医学专业本科及研究生毕业论文中的学术不端率。
在这项横断面研究中，要求2015年研究期间从伊朗马什哈德医科大学医学院毕业的所有医学专业本科及研究生匿名填写一份简短的清单。该清单包括两个人口统计学问题和另外两个用于评估学术不端行为的问题。清单中对所有三种主要类型的学术不端行为都进行了解释。在本次调查中，我们对敏感问题采用了随机应答技术。我们要求受访者随机选择一个问题并回答。每个问题被选中的概率相等。
共收到149份填写好的问卷，其中44人（31%）为全科医生毕业，63人（44%）为住院医师毕业，31人（21%）为硕士学位毕业，6人（4%）为博士学位毕业。52%（75人）为男性。超过一半的参与者在2011年至2012年之间毕业。大多数参与者为本国人（104人，81%）。本科生在撰写论文时学术不端行为的估计率为19%，而研究生为26%。在这个问题上，男性与女性的比例几乎是两倍（30%对16%）。
在未来制定关于严格监管研究的政策时，必须考虑到这种高估计率。
