Respect for person
This ethical principle ensures that researchers treat participants as unique, valuable people.
What is respect for persons?
This term means the participant can decide whether to join a study or not.
This term means the participant can decide whether to join a study or not.
This document outlines the study and must be signed before participation.
What is an informed consent form?
This principle means researchers must do good and avoid harm.
What is beneficence?
This principle is about fair distribution of research benefits and burdens.
What is justice?
Researchers should consider a participant’s ________ beliefs, values, and cultural background.
What are religious or spiritual?
Autonomy is protected when participants can do this at any time during the study.
What is withdraw (without penalty)?
Participants must be told the study’s purpose, risks, and _______.
What are benefits?
Minimizing physical, emotional, or social risk helps uphold this principle.
What is beneficence?
Justice requires that no group is unfairly _______ for research.
What is targeted or burdened?
Asking for permission in a language the participant understands shows this kind of respect.
What is respecting language and comprehension level?
Researchers must avoid this kind of pressure when seeking participation.
What is coercion or undue influence?
Name two essential elements of informed consent.
What are risks, benefits, purpose, procedures, or right to withdraw?
Beneficence requires balancing the potential risks with ______.
What are potential benefits?
Selecting participants only from one racial group without justification may violate this.
What is justice?
When designing research with Indigenous communities, researchers must show respect by doing this collaboratively.
What is engaging in culturally responsive or community-based participatory research?
A university student is asked to participate in a professor’s research study during class. What autonomy concerns arise, and how should the researcher handle them?
What is the potential power imbalance or implied pressure due to the academic relationship, and the researcher should ensure voluntary participation by using an independent party to recruit and obtain consent?
How can power dynamics between researcher and participant affect informed consent?
What is it may influence the voluntariness or honesty of the participant’s agreement?
A researcher discovers mid-study that a treatment being tested may worsen symptoms for some participants. What is their ethical obligation?
What is to pause the study, reassess risks, and notify the IRB and participants?
In a study on school discipline policies, researchers only sample students from a low-income Black high school. What potential justice issue arises?
What is overrepresentation of a vulnerable group without equitable benefit or broader representation?
A research study involves photographing participants in a shelter without their names or details—what ethical violation may still occur, even with anonymity?
What is a violation of dignity or cultural representation (lack of informed dignity or consent)?
A low-literacy population is offered participation in a complex research study. What must researchers do to ethically preserve autonomy?
What is simplify consent materials and use teach-back methods to ensure informed comprehension?
Why might written consent not always be the most ethical method in certain cultural contexts?
What is because oral consent may be more culturally appropriate or reduce fear in vulnerable populations?
Beneficence includes not only preventing harm but also doing this to promote participant well-being.
What is maximizing positive impact through community-informed practices or benefit-sharing?
How does structural inequality impact ethical justice in research participant selection?
What is it can lead to disproportionate burdens on marginalized populations due to systemic barriers in access, recruitment, or informed participation?