Characteristic | Yes | No | |||
N | % | N | % | ||
Essential documents should be submitted with the request (n = 439) | Identification letter | 353 | 80.4 | 86 | 19.6 |
Data Collection Tools | 370 | 84.3 | 69 | 15.7 | |
Informed Consent | 337 | 76.8 | 102 | 23.2 | |
Essential documents are requesting since 2015 as per NCBE-KACT guidelines (n = 266) | Investigator’s Curriculum Vitae (C.V) | 232 | 87.2 | 34 | 12.8 |
Investigator’s Ethics Certificate from NCBE | 228 | 85.7 | 38 | 14.3 | |
Scientific characteristics of research proposals | Characteristic | Frequency (N) | Percentage (%) | ||
Sample size | Statistically calculated | 352 | 80.2 | ||
Not statistically calculated | 87 | 19.8 | |||
Inclusion & Exclusion criteria | Provided | 370 | 84.3 | ||
Not Provided | 69 | 15.7 | |||
Data analysis plan | Yes | 356 | 81.1 | ||
No | 83 | 18.9 | |||
Study setting | Hospitals | 308 | 70.2 | ||
Universities & Schools | 60 | 13.7 | |||
PHCCs | 34 | 7.7 | |||
Community | 26 | 5.9 | |||
Ministry of Health | 5 | 1.1 | |||
Others | 6 | 1.4 | |||
Classification of study design | Interventional | 18 | 4.1 | ||
RCT | 11 | 61.1 | |||
Non-RCT | 7 | 38.9 | |||
Observational | 421 | 95.9 | |||
Cross-sectional | 316 | 75.1 | |||
Record review + Audit | 74 | 17.6 | |||
Case-control | 14 | 3.3 | |||
Cohort | 8 | 1.9 | |||
Qualitative | 9 | 2.1 |