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Volume 9
Number 4


Ethics

In this Issue

Introduction

Special Issue: Ethics

Medical Repatriation: Physicians’ and Nurses’ Responses to a Dilemma

Respecting Vulnerability: Informed Consent in Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease

Conducting Research with the Elderly: Ethical Concerns For a Vulnerable Population

Ethical Issues in Conducting Research with Persons with Dementia

Other Original Research

Parent Involvement in Functional Assessment of Problem Behaviors Related to ADHD as a Basis for Intervention Selection

Surviving Postpartum Depression and Choosing to be a Mother

“Sibling Closeness,” a Concept Explication Using the Hybrid Model, in Siblings Experiencing a Major Burn Trauma

Do Peer-Led Parent Groups Make Young Mothers Better Parents?

The Relationship between Baseline Self-Efficacy and Breastfeeding Duration

 

  

The ethical issues in human subjects research have received increasing attention over the last 50 years. This edition of SOJNR is intended to help readers stay abreast of current issues and address a few of the many ethical dimensions of research. Those involved in the conduct of research with humans need to understand why we do what we do and how oversight mechanisms support and encourage good science.

The Belmont Report contains the ethical principles upon which the federal regulations for protection of human subjects are based. 1 This SOJNR issue contains a variety of articles that use the Belmont Report’s three basic principles relevant to the ethics of human subject research: respect for persons, beneficence and justice.

Rigorous compliance with ethical standards is required by regulation, but it is also the right thing to do. It safeguards the welfare of human subjects, reassures the public, promotes good science, and is a direct demonstration of why we chose to become scientists, healthcare providers and professionals in the service of the common good.

References

  1. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects Biomedical and Behavioral Research. The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research. In Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Publication No. (OS) 78-0013 and (OS) 78-0014.4, 18 April, 1979. Access date 27 October, 2009 at
    http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.htm