ETHICAL ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CONDUCTING
Keywords:
Ethical Issues, Qualitative Research, Voluntariness, Anonymity, ConfidentialityAbstract
Prevention of endangerment is a general ethical rule among any discipline researchers. A researcher ought to do every possible thing to prevent any damage inflicted to subjects as the outcome of their participating in a research, as well as to take appropriate measures should such an endangerment still occur. Participants in qualitative reserches are particularly sensitive to endangerment of their privacy, unwanted identification, breaching of trust, false introduction, and some other forms of manipulation. Therefore a researcher must pay special attention to the protection of testees and do everything to avoid their bearing any harmful consequrnces due to the participation in the research. In this work, the basic ethical principles of scientific research are presented and discussed: participation voluntariness, anonymity and privacy protection, as well as confidentiality. Specific ethical considerations the qualitative researchers who apply observation, indepth or focusgroup interview, as well as secondary analysis of qualitative data are faced with is specially presented.
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