Ethical Issues

Ethical Issues

1. Informed consent making participants aware of the aims of the research allowing them to choose if they want to withdraw or not.

   • In some research telling the participant the aims would ruin the study as behaviour wouldn't be natural
   • Dealing with informed consent: participants are given a consent letter and form detailing relevant information that might effect the decision to participate which will then need to be signed i under 16 a parent or guardian will sign for them.

2. Deception: deliberately misleading or withholding information from someone. It can be justified if the participant isn't caused undue distress

   • How to deal with it see node coming off protection from harm

3. Protection from harm means that participants shouldn't be placed at anymore risk than they would do in their daily lives. physical and psychological including embarrassment, being made to feel inadequate or more stress

   • At the end of the study participants should be given a full debrief where they are made aware of the aims of the study and any information they were not given. they should be told what the information will be used for and be given the right to withhold data. if they have experienced any distress and need anything the researcher should provide it.

4. Privacy and confidentiality. this means that participants have the right to control information about themselves so no names are used sometimes even places are changed

   • If personal details are held these must be protected, mostly none are recorded at all to maintain anonymity referring to participants as numbers in case studies initials are often used its also common practice to remind participants that their data will be protected.