HHS 460 Research Methods in Health & Human Services W5-D2

 Ethical Implications   

Assume you were interested in the issues related to violence in  elementary level school children.  You are aware of the increased  incidences of bullying, leading to serious problems.  Specifically, you  want to video tape children’s behavior out of school on their way home  to and from school.  You want to capture, on video, the social  interactions that take place, trying to record behaviors that are  definitely bullying behaviors or “could lead to bullying.”  So you are  focusing on the perpetration of bullying.  For this discussion, you are  asked to identify “ethical” factors involved in your proposed research.  Your list would include research issues and ethical implications beyond  the basic informed consent condition.  

Required Resources

1. Read from the text, Applied social research:

• Chapter 3: Ethical Issues in Social Research
  • This chapter provides information on various ethical issues in social research. 
• Partners Human Research Committee (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Retrieved from  http://healthcare.partners.org/phsirb/infcons.htm
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration Institutional Review FAQ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Retrieved from http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm126420.htm