Table IV.
Association Between Self-Report Within Each Misconduct Composite and Prior Ethics training, Region Where Degree Obtained, Academic Position, and Gender (n=224)
| Misconduct Composite |
Prior ethics training n (%) |
Region Where Degree Obtained n (%) |
Academic Position n (%) |
Gender n (%) |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (n=131) |
No (n=93) |
P- value |
Middle East/North Africa (n=185) |
Western (n=39) |
P- value |
Master/PhD/ Postdoc/ and Other (n=109) |
Faculty (n=115) |
P- value |
Male (n=89) |
Female (n=134) |
P- value |
|
| Circumventing Research Ethics Regulations | 57 (43.5) |
55 (59.1) |
0.021 | 100 (54.1) | 12 (30.8) | 0.008 | 61 (56.0) | 51 (44.3) |
0.262 | 44 (49.4) |
67 (50.0) |
0.847 |
| Fabrication and Falsification | 23 (17.6) |
41 (44.1) |
0.000 | 61 (33.0) | 3 (7.7) | 0.001 | 37 (33.9) | 27 (23.5) |
0.083 | 31 (34.8) |
33 (24.6) |
0.099 |
| Plagiarism | 11 (8.4) | 15 (16.1) |
0.075 | 25 (13.5) | 1 (2.6) | 0.052 | 17 (15.6) | 9 (7.8) | 0.070 | 9 (10.1) | 17 (12.7) | 0.557 |
| Authorship Misconduct | 22 (16.8) |
24 (25.8) |
0.100 | 41 (22.2) | 5 (12.8) | 0.189 | 21 (19.3) | 25 (21.7) |
0.647 | 17 (19.1) |
29 (21.6) |
0.646 |
| Conflict of interest | 7 (5.3) | 6 (6.5) | 0.727 | 12 (6.5) | 1 (2.6) | 0.341 | 9 (8.3) | 4 (3.5) | 0.126 | 2 (2.2) | 11 (8.2) | 0.063 |
| Other Research Practices | 25 (19.1) | 26 (28.0) | 0.119 | 44 (28.8) | 7 (17.9) | 0.430 | 35 (32.1) | 16 (13.9) |
0.001 | 18 (20.2) |
32 (23.9) |
0.521 |
| Any Misconduct | 67 (51.1) |
66 (71.0) |
0.003 | 117 (63.2) | 16 (41.0) | 0.010 | 70 (64.2) | 63 (54.8) |
0.151 | 55 (61.8) |
77 (57.5) |
0.519 |