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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Epidemiol. 2023 May 20;159:70–78. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.05.011

Table 4.

Demographic and other characteristics of survey respondents (n=271)

M SD
Age, years 36.3 8.9
n %
Female1 216 79.7
Grant Reviewer2 78 28.7
Location
 Asia 2 0.7
 Australia 4 1.5
 Europe 5 1.8
 North America
  United States 249 91.9
  Canada 7 2.6
 South America 1 0.4
Years from terminal degree 3
 < 1 year/graduate student 75 27.7
 1–5 101 37.3
 6–10 43 15.9
 11+ 52 19.9
Professional Title
 Doctoral Student 60 22.1
 Post-doctoral Fellow 53 19.6
 Assistant Professor 69 25.5
 Associate Professor 36 13.3
 Professor 21 7.7
 Clinical Psychologist 5 1.8
 Leadership-focused role4 6 2.2
 Research-focused role5 15 5.5
 Other6 6 2.2
Published Study Designs 7
 Cross-sectional 217 80.1
 Qualitative or Focus Group 157 57.9
 Longitudinal or Cohort 145 53.5
 Feasibility or Pilot 140 51.7
 Randomized Controlled Trial 130 48.0
 Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis 109 40.2
 Commentary 82 30.3
 Methods or Quantitative 65 24.0
 Protocol 72 26.6
 Quasi-experimental 42 15.5
 No experience selected 4 1.5
1

0.74% (n=2) respondents identified as non-binary/prefer not to respond.

2

Respondents were asked if they had served as a reviewer for competitive federal or government grants in the past three years.

3

Mean and SD in table, and Median in manuscript included graduate students (calculated as “0”) and less than one year from terminal degree (calculated as “0.5”). Scale stopped at 30+ (calculated as “30”).

4

Leadership roles encompass titles such as “director.”

5

Research roles encompass titles such as “research coordinator.”

6

Other encompasses titles such as “faculty” or “grant writer.”

7

Respondents were asked to select the types of articles they had published (primary author or co-author) in the last 3 years.