relation: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/293049/ title: Improving social justice in observational studies: protocol for the development of a global and indigenous STROBE-equity reporting guideline creator: Funnell, Sarah creator: Jull, Janet creator: Mbuagbaw, Lawrence creator: Welch, Vivian creator: Dewidar, Omar creator: Wang, Xiaoqin creator: Lesperance, Miranda creator: Ghogomu, Elizabeth creator: Rizvi, Anita creator: Akl, Elie A. creator: Avey, Marc T. creator: Antequera, Alba creator: Bhuta, Zulfiqar A. creator: Chamberlain, Catherine creator: Craig, Peter creator: Cuervo, Luis Gabriel creator: Dicko, Alassane creator: Ellingwood, Holly creator: Feng, Cindy creator: Francis, Damian creator: Greer-Smith, Regina creator: Hardy, Billie-Jo creator: Harwood, Matire creator: Hatcher-Roberts, Janet creator: Horsley, Tanya creator: Juando-Prats, Clara creator: Kasonde, Mwenya creator: Kennedy, Michelle creator: Kredo, Tamara creator: Krentel, Alison creator: Kristjansson, Elizabeth creator: Langer, Laurenz creator: Little, Julian creator: Loder, Elizabeth creator: Magwood, Olivia creator: Mahande, Michael Johnson creator: Melendez-Torres, G.J. creator: Moore, Ainsley creator: Niba, Loveline Lum creator: Nicholls, Stuart G. creator: Nguilefem Nkangu, Mirian creator: Lawson, Daeria O. creator: Obuku, Ekwaro creator: Okwen, Patrick creator: Pantoja, Tomas creator: Petkovic, Jennifer creator: Petticrew, Mark creator: Pottie, Kevin creator: Rader, Tamara creator: Ramke, Jacqueline creator: Riddle, Alison creator: Shamseer, Larissa creator: Sharp, Melissa creator: Shea, Bev creator: Tanuseputro, Peter creator: Tugwell, Peter creator: Tufte, Janice creator: Von Elm, Erik creator: Waddington, Hugh Sharma creator: Wang, Harry creator: Weeks, Laura creator: Wells, George creator: White, Howard creator: Wiysonge, Charles S. creator: Wolfenden, Luke creator: Young, Taryn description: Background: Addressing persistent and pervasive health inequities is a global moral imperative, which has been highlighted and magnified by the societal and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Observational studies can aid our understanding of the impact of health and structural oppression based on the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, age and other factors, as they frequently collect this data. However, the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guideline, does not provide guidance related to reporting of health equity. The goal of this project is to develop a STROBE-Equity reporting guideline extension. Methods: We assembled a diverse team across multiple domains, including gender, age, ethnicity, Indigenous background, disciplines, geographies, lived experience of health inequity and decision-making organizations. Using an inclusive, integrated knowledge translation approach, we will implement a five-phase plan which will include: (1) assessing the reporting of health equity in published observational studies, (2) seeking wide international feedback on items to improve reporting of health equity, (3) establishing consensus amongst knowledge users and researchers, (4) evaluating in partnership with Indigenous contributors the relevance to Indigenous peoples who have globally experienced the oppressive legacy of colonization, and (5) widely disseminating and seeking endorsement from relevant knowledge users. We will seek input from external collaborators using social media, mailing lists and other communication channels. Discussion: Achieving global imperatives such as the Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., SDG 10 Reduced inequalities, SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing) requires advancing health equity in research. The implementation of the STROBE-Equity guidelines will enable a better awareness and understanding of health inequities through better reporting. We will broadly disseminate the reporting guideline with tools to enable adoption and use by journal editors, authors, and funding agencies, using diverse strategies tailored to specific audiences. publisher: BioMed Central date: 2023-03-30 type: Articles type: PeerReviewed format: text language: en rights: cc_by_4 identifier: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/293049/2/293049.pdf identifier: Funnell, S. et al. (2023) Improving social justice in observational studies: protocol for the development of a global and indigenous STROBE-equity reporting guideline. International Journal for Equity in Health , 22, 5. (doi: 10.1186/s12939-023-01854-1 ) (PMID:36991403) (PMCID:PMC10060140) relation: 10.1186/s12939-023-01854-1 identifier: 10.1186/s12939-023-01854-1