The ethical issues and principles involved in conducting and publishing research with human participants.
Ethics Principles: This introduces fundamental principles of ethics such as autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and fidelity as well as their application in research.
Informed Consent: This covers the process of seeking informed consent from study participants, which ensures that participants are aware of the risks and benefits of their involvement in the research.
Confidentiality: This involves ensuring that participants’ identities and other sensitive information are protected by using appropriate measures such as de-identification, pseudonymization, and encryption.
Researcher Responsibility: This topic focuses on the researcher's ethical responsibilities, including minimizing harm, protecting confidentiality, and ensuring informed consent.
Research Design: This addresses the ethical considerations involved in choosing and designing research methods that are ethical and respect participant's rights.
Data Collection: This covers the ethical issues related to data collection, such as the importance of confidentiality and informed consent, as well as how to obtain consent from vulnerable populations.
Human Subject Research: This includes regulations and procedures for the ethical conduct of human subject research, including Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, ethical guidelines, and federal regulations.
Community Research: This covers the ethical issues specific to conducting research in community settings such as schools, neighborhoods, or organizations.
Vulnerable Populations: This covers special ethical considerations when researching vulnerable populations like children, minors, pregnant women, or people with disabilities.
Data Analysis: This focuses on the ethical considerations involved in analyzing research data and ensuring that the results are accurately presented.
Research Misconduct: This covers topics like plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, and other unethical research behaviors that can undermine the integrity of research.
Reporting Research Findings: This covers ethical issues related to reporting research findings, including the importance of transparency, data privacy, and data security.
Data Sharing: This covers ethical issues related to sharing research data, including the importance of consent, data de-identification, and data sharing privacy.
Conflict of Interest: This covers ethical issues related to conflicts of interest, such as financial or competing interests, which may compromise the integrity of research.
International Research: This covers ethical issues related to conducting research in foreign countries, including cultural diversity, language barriers, and ethical guidelines specific to the country or region.
Informed Consent: Ensuring that participants are fully aware of the nature and purpose of the research, and give their voluntary and informed consent to participate.
Privacy and Confidentiality: Protecting the personal information and privacy of participants, and ensuring that confidential data is secured and not disclosed to unauthorized parties.
Risk Management: Identifying potential harms or risks to participants and taking measures to minimize or eliminate them.
Fairness and Equity: Treating all participants with fairness and respect, and avoiding discrimination or bias based on race, gender, ethnicity, or other features.
Beneficence: Promoting the well-being and welfare of participants, and avoiding any harm or negative impact on them.
Respect for Persons: Treating participants as autonomous agents who are capable of making their own decisions, and respecting their rights and dignity.
Data Management and Sharing: Ensuring that data collection and storage is conducted ethically, and that data is used and shared responsibly in order to protect participants' privacy and confidentiality.
Research Integrity: Adhering to high standards of research design and conduct, including transparent reporting of methods and results, and avoiding fabrication or falsification of data.
Intellectual Property: Respecting the intellectual property rights of others and giving proper credit to sources of information or data used in research.
Professional Responsibility: Maintaining a high standard of professionalism and ethical conduct in research, and avoiding conflicts of interest or other unethical behaviors.