Table 6.
Logistic regression for variables predicting refusal to accept funds for scenario with the highest percent refusal overall and lowest percent refusal overall, 2017–2018
Variable | Scenario 6 (see Table 5) | Scenario 16 (see Table 5) | ||
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OR (95% CI) | p value | OR (95% CI) | p value | |
Region (base: USA) | ||||
Europe | 3.44 (0.73–16.09) | 0.117 | 5.58 (1.11–27.94) | 0.036 |
LMICs | 1.10 (0.30–4.03) | 0.888 | 3.98 (0.79–19.90) | 0.093 |
Gender (base: male) | ||||
Female | 1.08 (0.44–2.62) | 0.866 | 1.65 (0.54–5.02) | 0.376 |
Current academic rank (base: prof/prof emeritus) | ||||
Associate professor | 0.91 (0.31–2.67) | 0.859 | 0.69 (0.18–2.62) | 0.581 |
Assistant professor | 1.87 (0.50–6.95) | 0.348 | 1.09 (0.22–5.30) | 0.918 |
Other | 0.71 (0.15–3.30) | 0.662 | 0.36 (0.03–3.97) | 0.402 |
% of salary offset required (base: 0%) | ||||
1–25% | 0.64 (0.16–2.56) | 0.531 | 0.52 (0.06–4.77) | 0.560 |
26–50% | 0.84 (0.22–3.22) | 0.801 | 0.96 (0.16–5.94) | 0.965 |
Over 50% | 0.90 (0.30–2.68) | 0.845 | 1.18 (0.27–5.14) | 0.822 |
Primary identity (base: researcher) | ||||
Practitioner | 2.79 (0.31–25.48) | 0.362 | 1.64 (0.16–16.81) | 0.676 |
Teacher/lecturer/instructor | 0.41 (0.12–1.36) | 0.145 | 1.20 (0.28–5.15) | 0.803 |
Received training on research ethics (base: no) | ||||
Yes | 1.89 (0.30–11.93) | 0.497 | 0.72 (0.10–5.43) | 0.752 |
Completed research ethics online course (base: no) | ||||
Yes | 0.89 (0.22–3.52) | 0.864 | 1.19 (0.29–4.89) | 0.806 |
Attended conference on ethics of receiving for-profit funding (base: no) | ||||
Yes | 0.64 (0.24–1.73) | 0.378 | 0.34 (0.06–1.74) | 0.193 |