Ethical Concerns of Paying Cash to Vulnerable Participants: The Qualitative Researchers’ Views

Vulnerable participants in health research: methodological and ethical challenges

ethical reasoning in bioethics attempts to justify normative claims by referring to moral theory and arguments in an effort to defend conclusions with which all reasonable people must agree. (Burgess, 2007, p. 2285) However, as we have illustrated, ethical guidelines and notions of informed consent are normative claims that may be challenged in social and health research. The guidelines from me...

ethical challenges of researchers in qualitative studies: the necessity to develop a specific guideline.

considering the nature of qualitative studies, the interaction between researchers and participants can be ethically challenging for the former, as they are personally involved in different stages of the study. therefore, formulation of specific ethical guidelines in this respect seems to be essential. the present paper aimed to discuss the necessity to develop explicit guidelines for conductin...

Researchers’ First Duty Is to the Participants

Paying research subjects: participants' perspectives.

OBJECTIVE To explore the opinions of unpaid healthy volunteers on the payment of research subjects. DESIGN Prospective cohort. SETTING Southern Alberta, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Medically eligible persons responding to recruiting advertisements for a randomised vaccine trial were invited to take part in a study of informed consent at the point at which they formally consented or refused trial...

Ethical challenges of researchers in qualitative studies: the necessity to develop a specific guideline

Considering the nature of qualitative studies, the interaction between researchers and participants can be ethically challenging for the former, as they are personally involved in different stages of the study. Therefore, formulation of specific ethical guidelines in this respect seems to be essential. The present paper aimed to discuss the necessity to develop explicit guidelines for conductin...