Ethics in qualitative research
8 important questions on Ethics in qualitative research
What are covert concepts?
What is the framework of the seven requirements of professional standards?
- Social or scientific value
- scientific validity
- fair subject/participant selection
- favorable risk benefit ratio
- independent review
- informed consent
- respect for enrolled or potential participants.
What are ethical review committees and what do they do?
- Research Ethics Committee
- Institutional Review Boards
- review research proposals that include humans from an ethical point of view to protect the population under study
- approval of the purpose of the study, design, main questions, measures for confidentiality and request to follow up.
- often connected to hospitals
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What are key concerns of ethical review committees?
- Is this good science?: poor research? competence?
- what are the benefits/risks for participants?
- what are the benefits/risks for the organisation?
What are sensitive topics?
- subjects that are private, stressful or sacred.
- deviance and social control
- vested interests of powerful persons or the exercise of coercion and domination.
What are risks in qualitative research?
- Dragging it all up
- Exploitation
- coercion
- sanctions
What are benefits in qualitative research?
- feeling relieved
- being a worthwhile participant
- helping others
- benefits in institutional research
In what ways can research cause stress in the researcher?
- inexperience/lack of training
- role conflict (interviewer or friend?)
- felling isolated
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