Research Ethics

Research Ethics

1. Belmont Report

   • Respect for Persons
     • Individuals should be treated as autonomous and individuals with diminished autonomy should be entitled to additional protections (meaning researchers should receive informed consent from participants
     • When gaining informed consent, the form should not have flaws that may reveal a participants identity.
   • Justice
     • The practice of selecting research participants in a fair way. This is done to share the risks and benefits of the research with everyone.
     • Selecting exclusively under-privileged individuals or Nazis only using Jews for research
   • Beneficence
     • To always have the welfare of the participant in mind during the study. :
     • Doing a cost-benefit analysis on outcome of study.
   • A summary of ethical principles and guidelines for research involving human subjects. That has 3 core principles; 1) Respect for persons, 2) Beneficence & 3) Justice.
   • The standard ethical justification for informed-consent policy has been that obtaining informed consent is a way of respecting persons, which in turn is a fundamental moral requirement

2. Informed Consent

   • The ethical principle that individuals should be given enough information about a study, especially its potential risks, to make an informed decision about whether or not they are going to participate
   • Documents that are used to typically provide subjects with the information they need to make the informed decision whether or not to volunteer for a research study

3. Voluntary Participation

   • During human research, subjects exercise their free will in deciding whether or not to participate/ take part in a research activity
   • Documents that allow participants to decide (without being pushed or persuaded) whether or not they would like to be a part of the study.

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