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Ethics in Psychiatric Research.

Ethics in Psychiatric Research.

Ethics in Psychiatric Research: Issues and Recommendations.

Psychiatric research has increased remarkably over recent decades to help in understanding the current trends and better therapeutic options for illness. On the other hand, there is also a trend toward higher rates of retraction of published papers in the recent years. Ethics is required to maintain and increase the overall quality and morality of research. Psychiatric research faces several unique ethical challenges. Ethical guidelines are very important tool of research which safeguards participants; however, there is a dearth of such guidelines in India. The present paper aims to review available ethical issues and guidelines pertaining to psychiatric research. A search was conducted on Pubmed using search terms (e.g., “ethics,” “psychiatry,” “research”). Relevant studies were selected for the review after manual screening of title/abstract. Additional sources were referred to using cross references and Google Scholar. 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, among others. The current paper has made several recommendations to deal with ethical challenges commonly faced in psychiatric research. The ethical guidelines are utmost needed for Indian psychiatric research. Specific guidelines are lacking pertaining to psychiatric research. The issues and recommendations merit a further discussion and consideration.

Ethics in Psychiatric Research: Issues and Recommendations

Psychiatric research has increased remarkably over recent decades to help in understanding the current trends and better therapeutic options for illness. On the other hand, there is also a trend toward higher rates of retraction of published papers in the recent years. Ethics is required to maintain and increase the overall quality and morality of research. Psychiatric research faces several unique ethical challenges. Ethical guidelines are very important tool of research which safeguards participants; however, there is a dearth of such guidelines in India. The present paper aims to review available ethical issues and guidelines pertaining to psychiatric research. A search was conducted on Pubmed using search terms (e.g., “ethics,” “psychiatry,” “research”). Relevant studies were selected for the review after manual screening of title/abstract. Additional sources were referred to using cross references and Google Scholar. 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, among others. The current paper has made several recommendations to deal with ethical challenges commonly faced in psychiatric research. The ethical guidelines are utmost needed for Indian psychiatric research. Specific guidelines are lacking pertaining to psychiatric research. The issues and recommendations merit a further discussion and consideration.

Ethics in psychiatric research

This review presents the results of a book 1 on ethical problems of clinical research in psychiatry and its framework. The requirement of societally necessary research can be satisfied only if every research patient is appropriately protected against risks and burdens. A clinical research intervention is acceptable only if - its benefit-risk-relationship is reasonable and justified, and - the patient's informed consent is valid. Basic and only unsatisfactorily solved questions are related to the capacity to consent and to problems in the evaluation of the benefit-risk-relationship, particularly of individual versus societal benefits and risks.

Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Review of 25 Years of NIH-Funded Empirical Research Projects

Background: This paper reviews the past 25 years of empirical research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on matters of ethics in psychiatric research. Methods: Using the NIH RePORTER and Medline databases, we identified 43 grants and 77 publications that involved the empirical study of a matter of ethics in research involving mental health service users. Results: These articles provide original and useful information on important topics, most especially the capacity to consent and the voluntariness of consent. For example, participants who share a diagnosis vary widely in levels of cognitive impairment that correlate with decisional capacity, and capacity to consent can be enhanced easily using iterative consent processes. Few articles address matters of justice or benefits in research, particularly from the perspectives of participants. No articles address matters of privacy, confidentiality, or researcher professionalism. Conclusions: Despite the usefulness of data from the studies conducted to date, current research on research ethics in psychiatry does not adequately address the concerns of service users as expressed in recent publications.

A review of ethics in psychiatric research

To summarize important recent contributions to the literature on the subject of ethics in psychiatric research. Current literature reflects an expansion in the range of psychiatric research on ethics topics. Articles continue to appear on core ethics subjects such as informed consent, but many recent contributions focus on diverse issues such as third-party privacy, the ethics of Internet-based research, revisiting the wisdom of imposing medical ethics requirements on observational research, and psychiatric research ethics as applied to special populations such as children or older persons. Psychiatric research is critical for the elucidation, prevention, and treatment of mental diseases. Increased attention and novel approaches taken to obtain informed consent, correcting therapeutic misconception, and guarding privacy will advance the research enterprise and continue to ensure that the subjective experiences of participants in psychiatric research remain positive.

Ethics in psychiatric research: study design issues.

To identify and discuss ethical aspects of study design issues in psychiatric research. We conducted a literature review and conceptual analysis of study design in psychiatric research focusing on placebo, medication tapering and withdrawal (washout), and symptom provocation (challenge) designs. While advances in the care and treatment of persons with psychiatric disorders are crucial to the improved well-being of this stigmatized and often forgotten population, past abuses demonstrate the importance of the thoughtful application of ethical principles in the conduct of research. Some ethical issues have particular relevance to psychiatric research arising primarily from the specific vulnerabilities of those with mental illness and the risks posed by some research methodologies. Accordingly, sensitivity is required in the design of psychiatric research. Placebo, challenge, and washout study designs can present particular risks in the population of persons with mental illness. These issues are described and suggestions offered to promote the ethical design of psychiatric research.

Addiction, neuroscience and ethics

Neuroscience models have much to offer the field of addiction, but they will be self-defeating if they lead to severe restrictions on the type of neuroscience research that can conducted in future. A major challenge for the addiction field is to integrate the insights that neuroscience research has provided on drug use and addiction with those provided about drug use and addiction by clinical, epidemiological, sociological and economic research. The challenge is (1) to develop theories of addiction that take seriously the neurobiological bases for drug effects and addictive phenomena; (2) without depicting addicts as automatons whose behaviour is under the control of the drugs acting on the receptors sites in their brains; and (3) while recognizing the opportunities for individual decision, interpersonal influence and social policy to affect the drug use and the behaviour of drug-dependent people.

Curricular approaches to research ethics training for psychiatric investigators.

Training in research ethics is crucial for psychiatric investigators. Addressing ethical dimensions of human subjects research requires knowledge about the rules and norms governing research; sensitivity to ethical implications of actions; and skills in ethics problem solving. Investigators in training who are physicians have the additional challenge of developing identities as investigators that sometimes conflict with their identities as physicians. To propose a curriculum for psychiatric research ethics training. Review of literature on ethics education and presentation of a curricular approach to research ethics training for psychiatric investigators. Research ethics can be learned and should be taught. Involvement of active investigators in teaching research ethics is important. While core topics of psychiatric research ethics training have not yet been identified, there are available models from which to draw. Research ethics should be introduced early and integrated throughout the research training period. Lack of resources and institutional support can be obstacles to development of comprehensive research ethics curricula. Small-group, case-based discussion is best for teaching ethics problem-solving skills. Examples of teaching module ideas and a fully developed sample teaching module are presented. There is opportunity for creative models for teaching psychiatric research ethics. Work is needed to identify core topics, target pedagogical strategies to trainees at different levels, and develop evaluation methods.

Book Review: Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection

Book Review: Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection

Ethics in psychiatric research: a resource manual for human subjects protection

Ethics in psychiatric research: a resource manual for human subjects protection

Book Review: Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection. Edited by Harold Alan Pincus, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, and Sandy Ferris

Book Review: Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection. Edited by Harold Alan Pincus, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, and Sandy Ferris

Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection.

Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection.

Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection.

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore

Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection

Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection

Ethics in Psychiatric Research

Article AbstractFrom our regular book review column.This long-awaited guide to current standards and procedures for conducting psychiatric research with human subjects provides a cornerstone reference for a very complex set of issues. Such a compilation triumphs in presenting a balance of concerns that allows safe and informative study of the human psyche without infringing on basic human rights and dignity.

Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection

Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection

Book Review: Ethics: Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection

Book Review: Ethics: Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection

Ethics in Psychiatric Research

Controversy has arisen in recent years about the participation of psychiatric patients in questionably ethical research protocols. Consequently, academic psychiatrists have been called upon to enrich their understanding of the ethical aspects of research and to teach residents more intensively about these issues in scientific methodology. Toward these ends, the authors have assembled an extensive resource listing in the area of psychiatric research ethics. Articles were identified through MEDLINE and BIOETHICS LINE computerized searches and the authors' review of relevant literature through 1996. Emphasis was placed on those pieces with special historical value, empirical studies, and papers that provide background on the current controversies in psychiatric research ethics. The references were organized into five logical categories. Based on the resource review, the authors briefly discuss areas related to research ethics that merit greater attention in academic psychiatry.

Ethics in psychiatric research and practice.

Ethics in psychiatric research and practice.