In: Psychology
What are the ethical issues that will affect your research on the danger of social isolation on mental health?
How will you address these?
The term “ethics” has been derived from the ancient Greek words “ethos,” which implies to understand right and wrong. It refers moral standards and values that a person carries within himself. Research is defined as “any systematic investigation designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 10% of world population is suffering from some psychiatric illness and 25% of person experience some psychiatric illness during their lifetime. Some key points are :
1. Ethics is required to maintain and increase the overall quality and morality of research. 2. Psychiatric research faces several unique ethical challenges. 3. Ethical guidelines are very important tool of research which safeguards participants. 4.Psychiatric research has several important ethical issues which are different from other medical disciplines. These issues are related to informed consent, confidentiality, conflict of interest, therapeutic misconception, placebo related, vulnerability, exploitation, operational challenges.