@article{ref1,
title="Public health journals' requirements for authors to disclose funding and conflicts of interest: a cross-sectional study",
journal="BMC public health",
year="2018",
author="Daou, Karim N. and Hakoum, Maram B. and Khamis, Assem M. and Bou-Karroum, Lama and Ali, Ahmed and Habib, Joseph R. and Semaan, Aline T. and Guyatt, Gordon and Akl, Elie A.",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="e533-e533",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Public health journals need to have clear policies for reporting the funding of studies and authors' personal financial and non-financial conflicts of interest (COI) disclosures. This study aims to assess the policies of public health journals on reporting of study funding and the disclosure of authors' COIs. <br><br>METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of &quot;Public, Environmental & Occupational Health&quot; journals. Teams of two researchers abstracted data in duplicate and independently using REDCap software. <br><br>RESULTS: Of 173 public health journals, 155 (90%) had a policy for reporting study funding information. Out of these, a majority did not require reporting of the phase of the study for which funding was received (88%), nor the types of funding sources (87%). Of the 173 journals, 163 (94%) had a policy requiring disclosure of authors' COI. However, the majority of these journals did not require financial conflicts of interest disclosures relating to institutions (75%) nor to the author's family members (90%) while 56% required the disclosure of at least one form of non-financial COI. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The policies of the majority of public health journals do not require the reporting of important details such as the role of the funder, and non-financial COI. Journals and publishers should consider revising their editorial policies to ensure complete and transparent reporting of funding and COI.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1471-2458",
doi="10.1186/s12889-018-5456-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5456-z"
}