BACKGROUND All research involving human participants should be reviewed by a competent and independent institutional research and ethics committee. Research conducted at Makerere University College of Health Sciences should be subjected to a rigorous review process by the ethics committee in order to protect human participants' interests, rights and welfare. OBJECTIVE To evaluate researchers'...

allamah tabatabaei classifies the sciences based on his theory, “idrakat i’tibari” (conventional perceptions). according to this theory, the nature of the two perceptions, actual and conventional, are completely different. based on this theory, ethics is a conventional science; so, ethical propositions are described by the characteristics of conventional perception. in this essay, we have shown...

Based on the reasoned action and the differential association theories, a model is derived to explore the effects of individual and peer beliefs on software copyright infringements in Saudi Arabia. This study presents empirical evidence about this developing country on the impact of beliefs on behavior regarding ethical issues that can arise as a result of ethical dilemmas, in a culture that is...

Ethical issues in the conduct of research is an important topic in research methods courses for graduate students in many Faculties of Education. The authors relate their experiences in teaching this topic over several semesters using a simulation of the well-known research into obedience by Stanley Milgram in the early 1960s. Students’ reactions to the use of the simulation at both emotional a...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the range, frequency and management of ethical issues encountered by clinicians working in hospitals in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted of a convenience sample of 104 medical, nursing and allied health professionals in two NSW hospitals. RESULTS Some respondents did not provide data for some questions, therefore the d...

background: fertility pattern has some influence on health of mother and child as well as it can resist population growth. methods: a cross sectional study on fertility perception among married women of reproductive age group, was carried out in 3 blocks and 2 municipality areas of howrah district of west bengal, india, covering 12 villages and 4 wards, selected by stratified multistage random ...