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. 2020 Aug 25;65(7):1133–1145. doi: 10.1007/s00038-020-01416-0

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)
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