{"title":"A 5-year review of research ethics applications in a tertiary health and educational institution in Nigeria","authors":"Dennis Amajuoyi Ndububa, Akinjide Olurotimi Ogundokun, Oluwagbemiga Oluwole Ayoola, Adebanjo Babalola Adeyemi, Rahman Ayodele Bolarinwa, Taiwo Olumuyiwa Ogundipe, Abdulkadir Ayo Salako, Aaron Oladiipo Aboderin, Olusegun Temitope Afolabi, Anthony Taiwo Adenekan, Ige Oluwatosin Taiwo, Oluwabanke Gold Akanbi","doi":"10.4314/ahs.v23i3.85","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: African contribution to global research output is said to be low. Poor funding and poor skills in grant writing havebeen suggested as important factors for this situation.
 Objectives: Applications for research ethics clearance in a hospital were reviewed to have an overview of the planned studiesand the proportion of them that attracted national and international funding.
 Methods: A review of all applications for ethical clearance received by the institutional review board of a university teachinghospital at Ile-Ife, Nigeria, from 2016 to 2020. They were analysed according to study nature, scope, purpose, and sponsorshipusing descriptive statistics presented as frequency tables and charts.
 Results: A total of 878 applications were reviewed. There were 803 (91.5%) applications for local, 45 (5.1%) for national multicentre,and 30 (3.4%) for international multicentre studies. Applications for medical fellowship were 352 (40.0%) while 208(23.8%) were from academic staff for non-degree research. There were 610 (69.5%) applications for self-sponsored studies.Only 18 (2.0%) and 26 (3.0%) received sponsorship from national and international donor agencies, respectively.
 Conclusions: Local studies formed the bulk of the submissions for ethics clearance. National and international donor fundingof research is abysmally low in this Nigerian tertiary institution studied.
 Keywords: Research ethics applications; study sponsorship.","PeriodicalId":7853,"journal":{"name":"African Health Sciences","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"African Health Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i3.85","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Background: African contribution to global research output is said to be low. Poor funding and poor skills in grant writing havebeen suggested as important factors for this situation.
Objectives: Applications for research ethics clearance in a hospital were reviewed to have an overview of the planned studiesand the proportion of them that attracted national and international funding.
Methods: A review of all applications for ethical clearance received by the institutional review board of a university teachinghospital at Ile-Ife, Nigeria, from 2016 to 2020. They were analysed according to study nature, scope, purpose, and sponsorshipusing descriptive statistics presented as frequency tables and charts.
Results: A total of 878 applications were reviewed. There were 803 (91.5%) applications for local, 45 (5.1%) for national multicentre,and 30 (3.4%) for international multicentre studies. Applications for medical fellowship were 352 (40.0%) while 208(23.8%) were from academic staff for non-degree research. There were 610 (69.5%) applications for self-sponsored studies.Only 18 (2.0%) and 26 (3.0%) received sponsorship from national and international donor agencies, respectively.
Conclusions: Local studies formed the bulk of the submissions for ethics clearance. National and international donor fundingof research is abysmally low in this Nigerian tertiary institution studied.
Keywords: Research ethics applications; study sponsorship.
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The African Health Sciences is an internationally refereed journal publishing original articles on research, clinical practice, public health, policy, planning, implementation and evaluation, in the health and related sciences relevant to Africa and the tropics. Its objectives are to: Advocate for and promote the growth of reading culture in sub Saharan Africa; Provide a high quality journal in which health and policy and other researchers and practitioners in the region can and world wide, can publish their work; Promote relevant health system research and publication in the region including alternative means of health care financing, the burden of and solution of health problems in marginalized urban and rural communities amongst the displaced and others affected by conflict; Promote research and the systematic collection and collation and publication of data on diseases and conditions of equity and influence; Promote development of evidence-based policies and guidelines for clinical, public health and other practitioners. African Health Sciences acknowledges support provided by the African Health Journals Partnership Project that is funded by the US National Institutes of Health (through the National Library of Medicine and the Fogarty International Center) and facilitated by the Council of Science Editors.
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