%0 Journal Article %A Angel Martinez-Hernaez %A Deborah Bekele %A Carla Sabariego %A Ángel Rodríguez-Laso %A Ellen Vorstenbosch %A Laura Alejandra Rico-Uribe %A José Luis Ayuso-Mateos %A Albert Sánchez-Niubò %A Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas %A Josep Maria Haro %T The Structural and Intercultural Competence for Epidemiological Studies (SICES) guidelines: a 22-item checklist %D 2021 %R 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005237 %J BMJ Global Health %P e005237 %V 6 %N 4 %X Structural and intercultural competence approaches have been widely applied to fields such as medical training, healthcare practice, healthcare policies and health promotion. Nevertheless, their systematic implementation in epidemiological research is absent. Based on a scoping review and a qualitative analysis, in this article we propose a checklist to assess cultural and structural competence in epidemiological research: the Structural and Intercultural Competence for Epidemiological Studies guidelines. These guidelines are organised as a checklist of 22 items and consider four dimensions of competence (awareness and reflexivity, cultural and structural validation, cultural and structural sensitivity, and cultural and structural representativeness), which are applied to the different stages of epidemiological research: (1) research team building and research questions; (2) study design, participant recruitment, data collection and data analysis; and (3) dissemination. These are the first guidelines addressing structural and cultural competence in epidemiological inquiry.All data relevant to the study are included in the article. %U https://gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/6/4/e005237.full.pdf