A schema for coding health equity scholarship within pediatric research.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Seattle Children's Research Institute is identifying the amount and type of health equity scholarship being conducted institution wide. However, methods for categorizing how scholarship is equity-focused are lacking. We developed and evaluated the reliability of a health equity scholarship coding schema applied to Seattle Children's affiliated scholarship.

Methods

A 2021-2022 Ovid MEDLINE affiliation search yielded 3551 affiliated scholarship records, with 1079 records identified via an existing filter as scholarship addressing social determinants of health. Through reliability testing and examining concordance and discordance across three independent coders of these records, we developed a coding schema to classify health equity scholarship (yes/no). When healt

SUBMITTER: Abdi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11523018 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature