Research Ethics Principles

Study Notes

Respect for Persons: Protecting participants from harm, respecting their autonomy, and ensuring informed consent.
Beneficence: Maximizing benefits and minimizing risks to participants.
Justice: Ensuring fair distribution of benefits and risks, and protecting vulnerable populations.

Informed Consent: Obtaining voluntary, informed, and written consent from participants before the study.
Privacy and Confidentiality: Protecting participants' personal information and maintaining confidentiality.
Anonymity: Keeping participants' identities anonymous, when possible.
Deception: Avoiding deception or misrepresentation of the study's purpose or procedures.

Selection Bias: Minimizing bias in participant selection to ensure representative samples.
Randomization: Using randomization to reduce bias and ensure fairness.
Confounding Variables: Controlling for confounding variables to ensure accurate results.
Debriefing: Providing participants with a full explanation of the study's purpose and procedures after the study.

Data Quality: Ensuring accuracy, completeness, and reliability of data.
Data Security: Protecting data from unauthorized access, loss, or damage.
Data Analysis: Avoiding bias in data analysis and interpretation.
Reporting Results: Presenting results in a clear, accurate, and unbiased manner.

Competence: Ensuring professional competence and staying up-to-date with knowledge and skills.
Integrity: Maintaining honesty, transparency, and accountability in professional practice.
Responsibility: Taking responsibility for one's actions and their impact on others.
Respect for Colleagues: Maintaining respect and collaboration with colleagues and other professionals.

Moral Principles: Applying moral principles to guide decision-making.
Ethical Theories: Using ethical theories, such as utilitarianism or deontology, to inform decision-making.
Ethical Frameworks: Using ethical frameworks, such as the Belmont Report, to guide decision-making.
Reflective Practice: Engaging in reflective practice to consider ethical implications and improve decision-making.

Respect for Persons involves protecting participants from harm, respecting their autonomy, and ensuring informed consent.
This principle ensures that participants are not coerced into participating and that they understand the risks and benefits involved.

Informed Consent requires obtaining voluntary, informed, and written consent from participants before the study.
This involves providing participants with all necessary information about the study, including its purpose, procedures, and potential risks and benefits.
Privacy and Confidentiality involve protecting participants' personal information and maintaining confidentiality.
Anonymity involves keeping participants' identities anonymous, when possible.

Selection Bias occurs when participants are not selected randomly, leading to an unrepresentative sample.
Randomization helps to minimize bias and ensure fairness in the selection of participants.
Confounding Variables are factors that can affect the outcome of a study, and must be controlled for to ensure accurate results.
Debriefing involves providing participants with a full explanation of the study's purpose and procedures after the study.

Data Quality is crucial to ensure accuracy, completeness, and reliability of data.
Data Security involves protecting data from unauthorized access, loss, or damage.
Data Analysis must be free from bias and interpretation.
Reporting Results involves presenting results in a clear, accurate, and unbiased manner.

Competence involves ensuring professional competence and staying up-to-date with knowledge and skills.
Integrity involves maintaining honesty, transparency, and accountability in professional practice.
Responsibility involves taking responsibility for one's actions and their impact on others.
Respect for Colleagues involves maintaining respect and collaboration with colleagues and other professionals.

Moral Principles involve applying moral principles to guide decision-making.
Ethical Theories, such as utilitarianism or deontology, can be used to inform decision-making.
Ethical Frameworks, such as the Belmont Report, can be used to guide decision-making.
Reflective Practice involves engaging in reflective practice to consider ethical implications and improve decision-making.