Extent of knowledge and attitudes on plagiarism among undergraduate medical students in South India - a multicentre, cross-sectional study to determine the need for incorporating research ethics in medical undergraduate curriculum

Raj, Jeffrey Pradeep; Venkatachalam, Shreeraam; Amaravati, Rajkumar. S.; Baburajan, Ramya; Oommen, Aswathy Maria; Jose, Jesin Elsa; R, Rajad.; R, Reshmi.; George, Melvin; Ramraj, Balaji; Gopalakrishnan, Bhuvaneswari; Kumar, T. Suresh; Saleem, Ahammed K.; Rai, Mohandas; Penumutsa, Vijay Subbaraju; Bodda, Deepthi Rani; Prasanna, B. Lakshmi; Manderwad, Guru Prasad; S, Rajiv; Bhandare, Basavaraj; Mada, Prashanth; Mathai, Dilip; Aiyappan, Rajalakshmi; Mathew, Philip

doi:10.1186/s12909-022-03438-z

Table 4 Predictors of unfavourable attitudes towards plagiarism

From: Extent of knowledge and attitudes on plagiarism among undergraduate medical students in South India - a multicentre, cross-sectional study to determine the need for incorporating research ethics in medical undergraduate curriculum

Predictor	Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
Predictor	β	p value	β	Std. β	95% CI	p value		VIF		EV (CIx)
Permissive attitudes*
Younger age	-0.049	0.233	Not included in analysis
Male Gender	0.132	0.426	Not included in analysis
Earlier years in education	-0.079	0.228	Not included in analysis
No Previous Publications	-0.731	0.181	-0.829	0.025	-1.903, 0.244		0.130		1.001	0.976 (1.640)
Not Currently involved in research	-0.489	0.256	Not included in analysis
Education in Government Medical College	-1.416	< 0.001	-1.479	0.138	-1.823, -1.135	< 0.001		1.010		0.330 (2.819)
Poor knowledge score	-0.105	0.032	-0.066	0.022	-0.162, 0.029	0.174		1.010		0.068 (6.214)
Critical Attitudes^#
Younger age	0.098	0.003	0.073	0.035	0.005, 0.140	0.035		1.028		1.095 (2.028)
Male Gender	-0.286	0.031	-0.148	0.017	-0.426, -0.129	0.296		1.005		0.825 (2.336)
Earlier years in education	0.004	0.938	Not included in analysis
No Previous Publications	-1.719	< 0.001	-1.794	-0.067	-2.663, -0.925	< 0.001		1.034		0.386 (3.415)
Not Currently involved in research	-1.087	0.001	-0.909	-0.043	-1.594, -0.225	0.009		1.028		0.126 (5.983)
Education in Government Medical College	-.757	< 0.001	-0.835	-0.097	-1.112, -0.557	< 0.001		1.026		0.062 (8.515)
Poor knowledge score	-0.197	< 0.001	-0.174	-0.073	-0.250, -0.097	< 0.001		1.011		0.005 (31.548)
Subjective Norms^$
Younger age	-0.037	0.260	Not included in analysis
Male Gender	-0.057	0.674	Not included in analysis
Earlier years in education	0.032	0.548	Not included in analysis
No Previous Publications	-1.271	0.018	-1.194	.044	-2.081, -0.306	0.008		1.024		1.082 (1.579)
Not Currently involved in research	-0.679	0.052	-0.417	.019	-1.118, 0.283	0.243		1.023		0.822 (1.812)
Education in Government Medical College	-0.754	< 0.001	-0.665	.076	-0.947, -0.382	< 0.001		1.011		0.330 (2.861)
Poor knowledge score	-0.086	0.032	-0.070	.029	-0.148, 0.009	0.083		1.010		0.068 (6.301)

CI = Confidence Interval; VIF = Variance inflation factor; EV = Eigen Value; CIx = Condition Index. * R = 0.144; R² = 0.021; adjusted R² = 0.020, ^# R = 0.158; R² = 0.025; adjusted R² = 0.023. ^$ R = 0.097; R² = 0.009; adjusted R² = 0.008

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