Lecture 3 Flashcards

1
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What is research ethics

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concerned with ethical conduct and decision making in undertakings intended to extend knowledge through a disciplined inquiry and/or systematic investigation

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What are the principles of ethical conduct in research

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  1. scientific merit and integrity
  2. respect for persons
  3. beneficence/concern for welfare
  4. justice
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3
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what is the TCPS2

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Tri-Council Policy Statement 2022

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4
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can approvals be obtained retrospectively

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NO

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5
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Draw the wheel of science

A

draw

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6
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What are the 3 core principles in the conduct of research

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  1. respect for persons
  2. concern for welfare
  3. justice
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What are the concepts that REBs examine when reviewing studies

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  1. minimize potential risks to participants
  2. ensure consent is free and informed
  3. ensure scientific merit
  4. ensuring any conflicts of interests have been managed
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8
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What are different types of risk

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  1. physical
  2. psychological
  3. economic
  4. social
  5. legal
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9
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What is directly identifying info

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you know who the person is

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What is indirectly identifying info

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when info is grouped together, you know who the person is

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What is coded info

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you replace the identifying info with study ID in data set but you have a separate list of the study IDs and who they correspond to

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What is anonymized info

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Same as coded but you throw away the master list, and can never link the study IDs back to individuals

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13
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What is anonymous info

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You never collected any identifying info

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14
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What is fabrication

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making up data, methods, or findings

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15
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What is falsification

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Manipulation or omission of data, methods, or findings without appropriate disclosure

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16
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What is plagiarism

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Referring to another researcher’s work without appropriate attribution, referencing, or permission

17
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What is the mechanism that is most often used to mitigate risks associated with research

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informed consent

18
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What is the difference between confidentiality and anonymity

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confidentiality = a researcher’s obligation to safeguard and protect a study participant’s personal info

anonymity = when study doesn’t have identifying info

19
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What are two ways of conceptualizing health

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  1. personal trouble
  2. public issue
20
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What is a paradigm

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the assumptive base underlying a particular investigation or enquiry that has been taken

21
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What are the two aspects of research philosophy

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epistemology - nature and definition of knowledge and truth
ontology - nature of reality

22
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What are the 3 epistemologies

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  1. positivist
  2. interpretivist
  3. critical realism
23
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what are the 2 ontologies

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  1. objectivism
  2. constructionism
24
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What are the two methodologies

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quantitative and qualitative

25
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What is positivism

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valid knowledge and truth for scientific process of observation, measurement, generalization

26
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What are features of positivist research

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  • determinism
  • objectivity
  • quantification
  • reliability
  • generalizability
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What are advantages of positivism

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  • consistent and relatively concrete outcome measures
  • techniques of randomization and blinding reduce bias
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What are some critiques of positivist

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  • many questions can’t use a positivist approach
  • not enough attention to lived experience
  • difficult categorizing life circumstances objectively
  • complete objectivity = fallacy
29
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What is interpretivism

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critique positivism…. knowledge from subjective understanding

30
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What are advantages of interpretivism

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  • less likely to get stuck in conventional ways of thinking
  • create new ideas and categories
  • SUBJECTIVITY AND COMPLEXITY
31
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What are critiques of interpretivist

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  • little consensus on appropriate methods of data collection and analysis
  • must not make unjustified generalizations
  • may adopt convenience sampling that are biased
32
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What is critical realism

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valid knowledge and truth generated by theorizing, rather than measuring or observing
- FOCUS ON THEORIZING
- critique both before

33
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What is objectivism

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study phenomena that exist as external objects

34
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What is construction ism

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researchers study socially constructed objects