Research ethics prescribe guidelines to protect from ............... .
Harm to participants
Research ethics are the moral principles governing how social research is conducted. Their core purpose is to protect the people who take part: informed consent, voluntary participation, confidentiality and anonymity, privacy, and avoiding physical, psychological or social harm to participants.
Ethical codes (for example the Nuremberg Code and the Belmont Report, and the guidelines of professional bodies such as the American Sociological Association) arose after abuses in research on humans. They are not about keeping a researcher out of the limelight or publicity, nor about 'pollution of mind'. The central guideline is to do no harm to participants.
Hence, the answer is Harm to participants.
What is the primary purpose of obtaining informed consent in research ?
The informed consent given to the research participants includes information about :
(i) Purpose
(ii) Procedures and risks
(iii) Benefits and alternative procedures
(iv) Limits of confidentiality
Which of the following is not the principle of Biomedical ethics ?
Which type of cloning is ethically and legally objectionable ?
............... type of research misconduct involves making up or falsifying data.
Respondent’s name is changed but location is not changed. This suggests ................... .
Confidentiality does not mean ..................... .
Which of the following events is well-known for first outlining various principles of ethical conduct in research ?