Ethical challenges in a randomized controlled trial of peer education among veterans service organizations. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics 2010 Dec;5(4):43-51
Date
12/08/2010Pubmed ID
21133786DOI
10.1525/jer.2010.5.4.43Scopus ID
2-s2.0-78650106039 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 13 CitationsAbstract
Efforts to increase community members' involvement in research may create novel ethical challenges. We describe an ongoing randomized trial of a peer-delivered intervention to encourage hypertension self-management. Community members serving as peer leaders participate in subject recruitment, the informed consent process, and intervention. We describe our experience with several ethical issues that may arise when conducting research in similar settings: (1) coercion of community members, by the community, to participate either as leaders or as study subjects; (2) threats to the privacy of health information; and (3) conflict between peer leaders' roles as community members and study team members.
Author List
Whittle J, Fletcher KE, Morzinski J, Ertl K, Patterson L, Jensen W, Schapira MMAuthors
Kathlyn E. Fletcher MD Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinJeffrey Whittle MD Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Community-Based Participatory ResearchConfidentiality
Humans
Hypertension
Informed Consent
Patient Education as Topic
Patient Selection
Peer Group
Personal Autonomy
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Self Care
Social Support
Veterans
Wisconsin
