Final Assignment

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Ethical Principles

Nikita Chapman

Liberty University

Author Note

Nikita Chapman

I have no known conflict of interest to disclose.

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to

Nikita Chapman. Email: [email protected]

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Ethical Principles

Organization worldwide has made rapid progress in the field of research to

determine and evaluate different studies for future evaluations, standard formations, protecting

the individual's health and activities such as clinical surveillance, disease prevention, or control.

However, due to scientific invention, the primary research portion of maintaining the record is on

electronic gadgets, which have created the considerable threat of disclosure, misuse, and leakage

of research information about an individual (Tsan, 2019, p. 188) In medicine, various researches

have been carried out based on qualitative and quantitative methods to fulfill diagnostic and

clinical information. Countries have organized data of individuals through public health

information systems.

One of the basic principles in medical research is protecting information and

research work as a private matter. Hence, the world's health sectors have designed certain ethical

principles, rules, and regulations to meet the requirement of research records privacy. The need

of the principles is to protect medical records communicate the responsibility to the

researcher/investigator to maintain confidentiality. Ethical principles strengthen patients' health

records, ensure security, and limit the use or disclosure of health information dignified,

respectable way. These ethical principles, carrying out research, enable the organization, health

sector services, and critical public authorities to understand the consequences, responsibilities,

and obligations during performing duties. Ethical principles provide a mechanism, directions,

and systematic guidance for research and investigations and enable entities for sustainable health

information protection.

Informed Consent

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Informed consent is one of the essential parts of any research work. Informed consent

will be helpful for the participant to understand well what the basics of research being done are

and what would be the possible outcomes. Through the consent form, every detail regarding the

research will be provided to the participant, and he will be allowed to take his time and

understand it well. The process and privacy of the research will be explained to the participant,

and it will be ensured that this research will remain highly confidential with his information and

no information regarding the research and participants will be leaked.

The consent form will be written in easy language so that it would be easy for the

participant to understand, and he will be allowed freely to ask if there are any queries regarding

the research. This informed consent will let the participant decide voluntarily whether either he

would like to become a part of it or not. The participant needs to think about the research and

understand its aim and purpose for the conduction (Tsan, 2019, p. 188). They will also be able to

understand their role in the research study. It will also help the participant understand their

medical condition, rates of success, and the information about treatment he would like to get to

cure himself. Time is given to the participant to consider, and then the consent is taken.

Protection of Privacy

Protection of the privacy of the data is very crucial for the study. The participant tries

to give the best possible honest response (Xiang & Cai, 2021). They tend to volunteer in a study

so that they will not be explicitly exposed for any reason and will not become a test subject for

other scientific studies. Privacy protects the participants from various sources of potential harm.

Furthermore, it also protects them from distress and social embracement of any kind. I will

protect the privacy of my study by collecting the data and analyzing it on my own. No one will

be part of it, and it will not be handed over to anyone for analysis.

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Furthermore, only two copies of the research data will be created that will remain

between the researcher and the supervisor only. The data used for the process could be saved in

specific coding languages that would only be understandable to the researcher. Another major

step that can be taken to protect the privacy of the participant's data is that the whole collected

data will be destroyed after the six months of publishing the article and completion of the

research. All the confidential files will be maintained and saved so that participants can go

through research in a relaxing manner.

IRB Review:

IRB consists of a group of specialists who go through the research, and they are

formally designated to observe each part of the research. This specialist asks about each subject

whenever biomedical research is conducted (Tsan, 2019, p. 187). Once they approve the

research, it can move in a further direction. IRB is allowed to make changes in research or even

cancel it if it is not worthy of being conducted or contains any part that can be harmful to people.

They review the research project thoroughly and then allow it to be carried on. For my research

proposal, the IRB analyst will undoubtedly allow it as my research will be confidential and will

not be harmful to humanity in any possible way. As IRB has the authority to approve, a research

proposal with properly informed consent, confidential data, and harmless for humanity will be

accepted.

Risk-Benefit Ratio

A risk-benefit ratio for my study, based on human psychology, will be favorable. This ratio

defines the ratio of risk occurrence or potential of gaining a benefit from a research study. If the

number of risks is less than the benefits obtained from the study, then the study is likely to be

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successful. My study participants will observe more benefits and understand their medical

conditions at the end, and they will fully understand their profits at the end of the study.

References

Tsan, M.-F. (2019). Measuring the Quality and Performance of Institutional Review

Boards. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 14(3), 187–189.

https://doi.org/10.1177/1556264618804686

Xiang, D., & Cai, W. (2021). Privacy Protection and Secondary Use of Health Data: Strategies

and Methods. BioMed Research International,

2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6967166