Ethical issues

• What are the four ethical issues?

  Privacy & Confidentiality, protection from harm, informed consent, deception
• What is informed consent?

  Making participants aware of the aims of the research, procedure and rights
• What is the issue with informed consent?

  May make the study meaningless, as behaviour becomes unnatural
• What is deception?

  Deliberately misleading or withholding information from participants
• What is the issue with deception?

  Participants cannot give full informed consent
• What is protection from harm?


  Participants shouldn't be placed under any more risk than they would be in their daily lives
• What is an important feature of protection from harm?

  Right to withdraw
• What is a right to withdraw?

  Participants always have the right to withdraw from the study
• What is confidentiality?

  The right to have any personal data protected under the Data Protection Act
• What act states participants data must be kept private unless otherwise stated?

  Data Protection Act
• What is privacy?

  Participants right to control information about themselves
• What can the right to privacy include?

  Where the study took place