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Ethical reporting of research on violence against women and children: a review of current practice and recommendations for future guidelines

Changes in research practice during the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates renewed attention to ethical protocols and reporting for data collection on sensitive topics. This review summarises the state of ethical reporting among studies collecting violence data during early stages of the pandemic. We sy...

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Autores principales: Peterman, Amber, Devries, Karen, Guedes, Alessandra, Chandan, Joht Singh, Minhas, Sonica, Lim, Rachel Qian Hui, Gennari, Floriza, Bhatia, Amiya
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10230928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37230546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-011882
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author Peterman, Amber
Devries, Karen
Guedes, Alessandra
Chandan, Joht Singh
Minhas, Sonica
Lim, Rachel Qian Hui
Gennari, Floriza
Bhatia, Amiya
author_facet Peterman, Amber
Devries, Karen
Guedes, Alessandra
Chandan, Joht Singh
Minhas, Sonica
Lim, Rachel Qian Hui
Gennari, Floriza
Bhatia, Amiya
author_sort Peterman, Amber
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description Changes in research practice during the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates renewed attention to ethical protocols and reporting for data collection on sensitive topics. This review summarises the state of ethical reporting among studies collecting violence data during early stages of the pandemic. We systematically searched for journal publications from the start of the pandemic to November 2021, identifying 75 studies that collected primary data on violence against women and/or violence against children. We developed and applied a 14-item checklist of best practices to assess the transparency of ethics reporting and adherence to relevant global guidelines on violence research. Studies reported adhering to best practices on 31% of scored items. Reporting was highest for ethical clearance (87%) and informed consent/assent (84/83%) and lowest for whether measures to promote interviewer safety and support (3%), for facilitating referrals for minors and soliciting participant feedback were in place (both 0%). Violence studies employing primary data collection during COVID-19 reported on few ethical standards, obscuring stakeholder ability to enforce a ‘do no harm’ approach and to assess the reliability of findings. We offer recommendations and guidelines to improve future reporting and implementation of ethics within violence studies.
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spelling pubmed-102309282023-06-01 Ethical reporting of research on violence against women and children: a review of current practice and recommendations for future guidelines Peterman, Amber Devries, Karen Guedes, Alessandra Chandan, Joht Singh Minhas, Sonica Lim, Rachel Qian Hui Gennari, Floriza Bhatia, Amiya BMJ Glob Health Original Research Changes in research practice during the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates renewed attention to ethical protocols and reporting for data collection on sensitive topics. This review summarises the state of ethical reporting among studies collecting violence data during early stages of the pandemic. We systematically searched for journal publications from the start of the pandemic to November 2021, identifying 75 studies that collected primary data on violence against women and/or violence against children. We developed and applied a 14-item checklist of best practices to assess the transparency of ethics reporting and adherence to relevant global guidelines on violence research. Studies reported adhering to best practices on 31% of scored items. Reporting was highest for ethical clearance (87%) and informed consent/assent (84/83%) and lowest for whether measures to promote interviewer safety and support (3%), for facilitating referrals for minors and soliciting participant feedback were in place (both 0%). Violence studies employing primary data collection during COVID-19 reported on few ethical standards, obscuring stakeholder ability to enforce a ‘do no harm’ approach and to assess the reliability of findings. We offer recommendations and guidelines to improve future reporting and implementation of ethics within violence studies. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10230928/ /pubmed/37230546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-011882 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37230546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-011882
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