Equity, diversity and inclusion are foundational research skills

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Failure to consider the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion in biomedical and human behaviour research harms patients, trainees and scientists. On the basis of experience and evidence, we make actionable, specific recommendations on how equity, diversity and inclusion can be considered at each step of a research project.

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Dissemination as Dialogue: Building Trust and Sharing Research Findings Through Community Engagement

Bryce McDavitt, Laura Bogart, Matt G. Mutchler … (2016)

A fundamental feature of community-based participatory research (CBPR) is sharing findings with community members and engaging community partners in the dissemination process. To be truly collaborative, dissemination should involve community members in a two-way dialogue about new research findings. Yet little literature describes how to engage communities in dialogue about research findings, especially with historically marginalized communities where mistrust of researchers may exist because of past or present social injustices. Through a series of interactive community presentations on findings from a longitudinal study, we developed a process for community dissemination that involved several overlapping phases: planning, outreach, content development, interactive presentations, and follow-up. Through this process, we built on existing and new community relationships. Following each interactive presentation, the research team debriefed and reviewed notes to identify lessons learned from the process. Key themes included the importance of creating a flexible dissemination plan, tailoring presentations to each community group, establishing a point person to serve as a community liaison, and continuing dialogue with community members after the presentations. Core strategies for developing trust during dissemination included engaging community members at every step, reserving ample time for discussion during presentations, building rapport by sharing personal experiences, being receptive to and learning from criticism, and implementing input from community members. This process led to a deeper understanding of research findings and ensured that results reached community members who were invested in them.

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Prevalence of unprofessional social media content among young vascular surgeons

Scott Hardouin, Thomas Cheng, Erica Mitchell … (2020)

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the authors, the Editor-in-Chief and the Senior Editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery. This article has been retracted in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Retraction Guidelines because the authors did not have permission to use the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) directory of program directors and trainees to conduct research. In addition, the methodology, analysis and conclusions of this article were based on published but not validated criteria, judging a series of behaviors including attire, alcohol consumption, controversial political and religious comments like abortion or gun control, in which significant conscious and unconscious biases were pervasive. The methodology was in part predicated on highly subjective assessments of professionalism based on antiquated norms and a predominantly male authorship supervised the assessments made by junior, male students and trainees. The authors did not identify biases in the methodology, i.e., judging public social media posts of women wearing bikinis on off-hours as “potentially unprofessional”. The goal of professionalism in medicine is to help ensure trust among patients, colleagues and hospital staff. However, professionalism has historically been defined by and for white, heterosexual men and does not always speak to the diversity of our workforce or our patients. The Editors deeply regret the failures in the Journal’s peer review process which allowed this paper to be published. The Editors and the review process failed to identify errors in the design of the study, to detect unauthorized use of the data, and to recognize the conscious and unconscious biases plaguing the methodology. For this, we express our most sincere apology.

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Sex and Gender Considerations in Transplant Research: A Scoping Review.

Claudie Laprise, Katherine Cole, Vikas Sridhar … (2019)

In response to the promotion of sex and gender integration in health-related research, we conducted a scoping review evaluating to what extent sex and gender were considered in the transplantation literature.

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Shannon M. Ruzycki:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8122-2910

shannon.ruzycki@ucalgary.ca

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Nat Hum Behav

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Nat Hum Behav

Title: Nature Human Behaviour

Publisher: Nature Publishing Group UK (London )

ISSN (Electronic): 2397-3374

Publication date (Electronic): 29 June 2022

Pages: 1-3

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[1 ]GRID grid.22072.35, ISNI 0000 0004 1936 7697, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, , University of Calgary, ; Calgary, Alberta Canada

[2 ]GRID grid.22072.35, ISNI 0000 0004 1936 7697, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, , University of Calgary, ; Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Shannon M. Ruzycki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8122-2910

Sophia B. Ahmed http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3000-2229

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Publisher ID: 1406

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01406-7

PMC ID: 9243902

PubMed ID: 35768648

SO-VID: 8e80a2c8-e4d2-4921-bd79-67c303e20cab

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