Alim-Uysal Betul Aycan, Goker-Kamali Selin, Machado Ricardo
Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Restor Dent Endod. 2022 Mar 15;47(2):e20. doi: 10.5395/rde.2022.47.e20. eCollection 2022 May.
The study investigated the difficulties experienced by endodontics researchers around the world in conducting studies and writing papers.
A survey consisting of 18 questions on the difficulties experienced by endodontics researchers in performing studies and writing papers was e-mailed to academics in the field of endodontics working at 202 universities. The independent risk factors were analyzed using binary logistic regression at a significance level of 0.05.
A total of 581 individuals (10.7%) agreed to participate in the study. Almost half the participants (48.2%) reported that they had received some type of training in conducting studies and writing papers. In response to the question, "Do you get help from a statistician to perform the statistical analyses of your studies?," 77.1% answered "yes." Around 40% of the participants stated that the need to obtain ethical approval negatively affected their desire to conduct studies. The participants' regions had no effect on the reported difficulties associated with writing papers in English or conducting statistical analyses ( > 0.05). Most participants (81.8%) reported difficulties in writing the Discussion section, regardless of their region, academic degrees, or years of experience.
The participants stated they experienced difficulties in many areas, such as conducting statistical analyses, finding new ideas, and writing in English. Engaging in a detailed examination of ethics committee rules, expanding biostatistics education, increasing the number of institutions providing research funding, and increasing the number of endodontics journals can increase the enthusiasm of endodontics researchers to publish papers.
本研究调查了世界各地牙髓病学研究人员在开展研究和撰写论文过程中所遇到的困难。
向在202所大学工作的牙髓病学领域的学者发送了一份包含18个问题的调查问卷，这些问题涉及牙髓病学研究人员在进行研究和撰写论文时所遇到的困难。使用二元逻辑回归在显著性水平为0.05的情况下分析独立危险因素。
共有581人（10.7%）同意参与本研究。几乎一半的参与者（48.2%）报告称他们接受过某种类型的研究开展和论文撰写培训。对于“在对你的研究进行统计分析时，你是否会得到统计学家的帮助？”这一问题，77.1%的人回答“是”。约40%的参与者表示，需要获得伦理批准对他们开展研究的意愿产生了负面影响。参与者所在地区对报告的与用英语撰写论文或进行统计分析相关的困难没有影响（P>0.05）。无论所在地区、学术学位或工作年限如何，大多数参与者（81.8%）报告在撰写讨论部分时存在困难。
参与者表示他们在许多方面都遇到了困难，如进行统计分析、寻找新想法以及用英语写作。对伦理委员会规则进行详细审查、扩大生物统计学教育、增加提供研究资金的机构数量以及增加牙髓病学期刊数量，可以提高牙髓病学研究人员发表论文的积极性。
