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Lecture 02-Ethical Issues

The document outlines ethical guidelines for conducting research, emphasizing the protection of participants and the responsibility of researchers. Key ethical principles include informed consent, confidentiality, and the right to withdraw from studies. It stresses the importance of minimizing harm and ensuring that research is conducted with integrity and respect for participants' rights.

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Lecture 02-Ethical Issues

The document outlines ethical guidelines for conducting research, emphasizing the protection of participants and the responsibility of researchers. Key ethical principles include informed consent, confidentiality, and the right to withdraw from studies. It stresses the importance of minimizing harm and ensuring that research is conducted with integrity and respect for participants' rights.

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Ethical Issues

Introduction
• Ethics refers to the correct rules of conduct necessary
when carrying out research. We have a moral
responsibility to protect research participants from
harm.
• In Britain ethical guidelines for research are published
by the British Psychological Society and in America
by the American Psychological Association.
• Purpose of these codes of conduct is to protect
research participants, the reputation of psychology
and psychologists themselves.
Ethical Factors
• No Pressure: never any pressuring of
participants.
• Safety : safety of participants essential.
• Credit : every researcher must receive precise,
appropriate credit.
• Communicate: one should try to make results
known to participants.
• Usage of Research: one should be conscious of
possible bad uses of research.
Ethical Principles
• Informed Consent
• Deception
• Protection of Participants
• Confidentiality
• Withdrawal
• Debrief
Informed Consent
• Purpose of the research.
• Procedures involved in the research.
• All foreseeable risks and discomforts to the participant (if there
are any). These include not only physical injury but also possible
psychological.
• Benefits of the research to society and possibly to the individual
human subject.
• Length of time the subject is expected to participate.
• Person to contact for answers to questions or in the event of
injury or emergency.
• Subjects' right to confidentiality and the right to withdraw from
the study at any time without any consequences.
Deception
• Some times for researcher its not possible to
explain all process with participants.
• Debriefing before experiment may affect
result.
• Researcher should adopt this process if they
have no other option.
Protection of Participants
• Researcher should be take responsibility of
participants physical & mental harms.
• Researcher must be understand / familiar with
animal participants & expert in taking care of
them.
• Researcher Should have advance Knowledge in
biomedical & participant behaviors for their
welfare .
Confidentiality
• Researcher must be ask to participants before
publish or share them with other.
• Researcher should keep all data and don’t
share with any ones.s
• Researcher should be take responsibility of
participants privacy .
Withdrawal
• Participants have right to withdrawal from
investigation at any time.
• Researcher can not do forcefully investigation
with participants.
Debrief
• Participants have right to ask question about
the result & research. • Researcher should
provide knowledge about the research and
should gives answers of participant questions.
• Researcher must be informer participants
about their rights ,they can withdraw any time
from research .
Ethical Issues Summary
• Researcher should have advanced knowledge
& experience about research field.
• Minimizing discomfort ,infection ,illness & pain
of participants
• Goal should be justified by scientific & applied
values.
• Accurate finding of species & result .

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