Silberman E K, Snyderman D A
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA 19107-4192, USA.
Am J Psychiatry. 1997 Aug;154(8):1159-60. doi: 10.1176/ajp.154.8.1159.
The authors investigated the extent and characteristics of published psychiatric research from U.S. and Canadian medical schools that was carried out without external funding.
They reviewed reports of unfunded research in 14 psychiatric journals, tabulating methodological factors and topics of study. They surveyed first authors about their academic duties and resources used in the studies.
Unfunded studies represented 26% of research reports, were usually prospective, most commonly dealt with phenomenology/epidemiology or psychopharmacology, used low levels of technology, and were accomplished on a modest budget of time and money.
Unfunded studies make a substantial and economically efficient contribution to psychiatric research. Future investigations should detail the institutional conditions necessary to sustain this type of research productivity.
作者调查了美国和加拿大医学院发表的无外部资金支持的精神病学研究的范围和特点。
他们查阅了14种精神病学杂志上无资金支持研究的报告，将研究方法因素和研究主题制成表格。他们调查了第一作者关于其学术职责以及研究中使用的资源。
无资金支持的研究占研究报告的26%，通常是前瞻性的，最常涉及现象学/流行病学或精神药理学，使用的技术水平较低，并且是在适度的时间和资金预算下完成的。
无资金支持的研究为精神病学研究做出了重大且经济高效的贡献。未来的调查应详细说明维持此类研究生产力所需的机构条件。
