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Ethical Dilemmas in Cross-National Qualitative Research: A Reflection on Personal Experiences of Ethics from a Doctoral Research Project

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العنوان: Ethical Dilemmas in Cross-National Qualitative Research: A Reflection on Personal Experiences of Ethics from a Doctoral Research Project
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Abukari Kwame (ORCID 0000-0003-3231-3100), Pammla M. Petrucka
المصدر: Journal of Academic Ethics. 2024 22(2):251-268.
الإتاحة: BioMed Central, Ltd. Available from: Springer Nature. 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-348-4505; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://www.springer.com/gp/biomedical-sciences
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 18
تاريخ النشر: 2024
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Ethics, Doctoral Students, Student Research, Informed Consent, International Cooperation, Qualitative Research, Research Committees, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Data Collection, Confidentiality, Privacy, Ethnography
مصطلحات جغرافية: Canada, Ghana
DOI: 10.1007/s10805-023-09484-6
تدمد: 1570-1727
1572-8544
مستخلص: Gaining ethical approval for qualitative health research and implementing all the planned research processes in a proposed study are not straightforward endeavours. The situation becomes more complex when qualitative research is conducted in a cross-national healthcare and academic context. Also, it is even exhausting when the study is student-based, as student researchers may be considered novices and inexperienced researchers, especially for field-based research. Our aim in this reflective paper is to present, reflect, and discuss the experiences of a doctoral researcher in dealing with two independent institutional review boards in Canada and Ghana during an interdisciplinary Ph.D. project and the ethical dilemmas encountered while collecting data in Ghana. Based on the researcher's experiences, it became apparent that consent and its documentation can have cultural implications in different settings; hence, institutional review boards must exercise reflexivity in their protocol review practice. Also, sharing research data with participants and institutional leaders while maintaining participant confidentiality and privacy in institutional ethnographic research requires sensitivity to bi-lateral ethical values. With the experiences shared in this paper, we advocate for a dialogic ethical review process in qualitative research where researchers and research ethics boards engage in ongoing dialogue rather than the usual prescriptive format research ethics reviews often assume.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2024
رقم الأكسشن: EJ1423295
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC
الوصف
تدمد:1570-1727
1572-8544
DOI:10.1007/s10805-023-09484-6