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National Healthcare Agency Consent And Research Ethical Term Paper

National Healthcare Agency Consent and research

Ethical standards that apply to experimentation and research

According to the Society for Research in Childhood Development (SRCD), several basic principles must be followed when research is being conducted on children. The first principle states that the procedures must be non-harmful: "The investigator should use no research procedure that may harm the child either physically or psychologically. The investigator is also obligated at all times to use the least stressful research procedure whenever possible" (Ethical Standards for Research, 2012, SRCD). However, no specific definition of what constitutes 'harm' is given.

There is also the principle of informed consent: consent of the child and the parent. "Before seeking consent or assent from the child, the investigator should inform the child of all features of the research that may affect his or her willingness to participate and should answer the child's questions in terms appropriate to the child's comprehension" while "the informed consent of parents, legal guardians or those who act in loco parentis (e.g., teachers, superintendents of institutions)...

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If other adults such as teachers are also subjects or participants in the study, their consent must be obtained as well.
The SRCD guidelines are not intended to be comprehensive, but rather relate to a specific sub-topic of research, namely the ethical quandaries that arise when doing research on children. Because children may not fully understand the long-term implications of the research that is being conducted upon them, there is a serious question as to whether children can ever truly, knowingly consent to be subjects of research in a meaningful fashion (particularly younger children). Parents and other adults act as guardians of the child's interests. The parents and other adults involved the research are assumed to have the knowledge and are able to give guidance to the child for the best possible course of actions.

This assumption is, of course, somewhat problematic, given that the consequences of being in a research study may stay with the child for the rest of his…

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Ethical Standards for Research. (2012). Society for Research in Childhood Development

(SRCD). Retrieved:
http://www.srcd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=110
Retrieved: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/hs/children1.htm
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