Doing participant observation in a psychiatric hospital— Research ethics resumed

Doing participant observation in a psychiatric hospital-- research ethics resumed.

Social scientists who employ participant observation methods in medical settings are often held accountable for their research methods, specifically in regard to medical research ethics. However, the medical research ethics tradition rubs uneasily against participant observation and the anthropological understanding of the research process. The underlying premise for considering research ethics...

Doing research on the ethics of doing research

In the previous issue of Critical Care Chenaud and colleagues found that most intensive care unit patients who had given informed consent for their participation in a clinical trial could not recall either the purpose of the trial or its related risks several days later. These findings should remind us that informed consent is a process, not an event, but they should not be interpreted to mean ...

Research ethics. Research practice and participant preferences: the growing gulf.

Ethics in psychiatric research: study design issues.

OBJECTIVE To identify and discuss ethical aspects of study design issues in psychiatric research. METHOD We conducted a literature review and conceptual analysis of study design in psychiatric research focusing on placebo, medication tapering and withdrawal (washout), and symptom provocation (challenge) designs. RESULTS While advances in the care and treatment of persons with psychiatric di...

Challenges of Introducing Participant Observation to Community Health Research

Participant observation elicits unique observation data from both an insider's and an outsider's perspectives. Despite the growing tendency to adopt participant observation strategies in health care research regarding health-related beliefs and types of behavior, the use of participant observation in current research is mostly limited to structured clinical settings rather than community settin...