PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Angel Martinez-Hernaez AU - Deborah Bekele AU - Carla Sabariego AU - Ángel Rodríguez-Laso AU - Ellen Vorstenbosch AU - Laura Alejandra Rico-Uribe AU - José Luis Ayuso-Mateos AU - Albert Sánchez-Niubò AU - Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas AU - Josep Maria Haro TI - The Structural and Intercultural Competence for Epidemiological Studies (SICES) guidelines: a 22-item checklist AID - 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005237 DP - 2021 Apr 01 TA - BMJ Global Health PG - e005237 VI - 6 IP - 4 4099 - http://gh.bmj.com/content/6/4/e005237.short 4100 - http://gh.bmj.com/content/6/4/e005237.full SO - BMJ Global Health2021 Apr 01; 6 AB - 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.