Research involving human beings in instructions to authors in domestic scientific nursing magazines

Abstract

This study analyzes the rules on ethics in research contained in the guidelines of Brazilian scientific nursing journals. We analyzed 208 journals with the Qualis A1 to C and 52.4% had instructions, but it varied significantly according to the Qualis. Concerning the instructions, 83 reported to ethics committee’s protocols, the others mentioned the National Health Council Resolution 196/96, the

Declaration of Helsinki, national research councils, trial records, the Federal Council of Medicine and commissions of the magazine. The results of this research indicate that it is still high the number of Brazilian scientific journals in nursing which have little concern regarding ethical aspects of research in health included in instructions to authors. Recommendations are quite different even in journals that make references to the ethical aspects.