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This manuscript included a statement on ethics approval and consent.
Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must: a statement on ethics approval and consent: not applicable.
Only 9.77% of theses reviewed had a statement on ethics approval (Table 1).
Most of the theses (14.01%) that had a statement on ethics approval were theses written for a medical degree, while no undergraduate theses documented ethics approval (Table 3).
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See Additional file 1: SM section S1 for statements on ethics and data access.
In Finland, ethics committees require a separate statement on ethical aspects of the research in applications to the ethics committee.
You took on ethics reform.
There are multiple international codes of ethics to guide HCPs in their work (i.e., Statement On Medical Ethics In The Event Of Disasters, World Medical Association 2006; United Nations Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, UNESCO 2005; The Sphere Project Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response 2010).
Overall, 17 (9.77%) of the theses/dissertations had a statement on research ethics approval of which 9 (52.94%) included a copy of the ethics approval certificate (Table 1).
We checked each thesis/dissertation for a statement on research ethics approval and informed consent and, if available, the name of the REC or IRB from which research ethics approval was obtained.
This is far below that recorded in a similar study (1985 2005) in another developing country (Sri-Lanka) where 34% of the students had a statement on research ethics approval in their theses [ 19].
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