Department of Health Promotion & Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Research Graduate, South African Research Ethics Training Initiative (SARETI), School of Applied Human Sciences, College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2024 Oct;19(4-5):238-249. doi: 10.1177/15562646241276237. Epub 2024 Sep 2.
Journal editors instruct authors to describe human participant protections in original research reports. However, little is known about African biomedical journal authors' adherence to such journal editors' instructions. This study investigated changes in editors' instructions to authors and authors' reporting of research ethics information in selected African biomedical journals between 2008 and 2017. Twelve selected journal websites and online articles were reviewed in Eastern, Southern, and Western African [ESWA] countries. A pre-tested schema and a checklist were used to collect data from journal websites and articles published in 2008 and 2017, and the data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Half of the journals requested prospective authors to disclose ethics approval and related issues in their manuscripts between 2008 and 2017. There was a significant increase in instructions to authors regarding information on the protection of research participants within this period; more authors complied with these requirements in 2017 than in 2007.
期刊编辑要求作者在原始研究报告中描述对人类参与者的保护措施。然而，对于非洲生物医学期刊的作者是否遵守期刊编辑的此类指令，人们知之甚少。本研究调查了 2008 年至 2017 年间，编辑对作者的指令以及作者在选定的非洲生物医学期刊中报告研究伦理信息方面的变化。在东部、南部和西部非洲国家审查了 12 个选定的期刊网站和在线文章。使用预先测试的方案和检查表从期刊网站和 2008 年和 2017 年发表的文章中收集数据，并使用描述性和推断性统计方法分析数据。在 2008 年至 2017 年期间，有一半的期刊要求 prospective 作者在稿件中披露伦理批准和相关问题。在此期间，关于保护研究参与者信息的作者指令显著增加；与 2007 年相比，2017 年有更多的作者遵守了这些要求。
