Category: Research Articles
July 14, 2018
This study seeks to develop a method of teaching ethics to nursing students using games. We used the one-group pretest–posttest design with 30 undergraduate nursing students as participants. Professional ethics education was provided for 17 weeks in 90-minute sessions. The Lutzen ethical sensitiv...
Maryam Maddineshat, Mohammad Reza Yousefzadeh, Mahdi Mohseni, Zahra Maghsoudi, Mohammad Ebrahim Ghaffari
July 10, 2018
Right to privacy of health-related information is a foundational bioethical principle. In India, the importance of protecting privacy is included in law and ethical guidelines. Institutional Ethics Committees (IECs) are entrusted with the responsibility of protecting fundamental ethical principle...
Nagendra N Mishra, Triptish Bhatia, Vishwajit L Nimgaonkar, Smita N Deshpande, Lisa S Parker
July 05, 2018
A published pilot study showed the feasibility of integrating ethics into physiology in a single medical college. However, questions were raised about feasibility of scale-up and acceptance across different colleges. To assess feasibility of integrating ethics into Physiology, first year MBBS stu...
Savitha D, Geetha S, Suma Bhaskar, Taniya Anto, Sejil TV, Vineetha Vittal, Santu Ghosh, Prashanth Kumar
June 22, 2018
The Medical Council of India intends to implement an attitude, ethics, and communication training module for medical students. This study investigates undergraduate students' attitudes towards communication skills training (CST). Forms were distributed to 81 recently admitted undergraduates, of w...
Jagdish Varma, Anusha Prabhakaran, Suman Singh
June 08, 2018
Although there have been numerous studies, especially in the last few decades, on the impact of child sexual abuse (CSA) on adult survivors, there is a dearth of studies focusing on the ethical aspects of research in this area. Against this background, we reviewed the literature published between...
Radhika K, Manjula M, TS Jaisoorya
May 28, 2018
Audiovisual (AV) recording of the informed consent process in a clinical or vaccine trial to document the consent process of participants (especially from vulnerable populations), ensures preservation of their rights and well-being. This paper describes the AV consent process during a phase III r...
Madhu Gupta, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Sanjay Verma
April 23, 2018
In 2013, an independent group of researchers developed the CARE guidelines, a checklist to standardise reporting of case reports. This study assesses adherence to CARE guidelines among PubMed-indexed Indian medical journals in 2015 and the extent of endorsement of these guidelines by the journals...
Renju Ravi, Alhad Mulkalwar, Urmila M Thatte, Nithya J Gogtay
September 19, 2017
Introduction: An important virtue in the medical profession is altruism, which makes a doctor serve without an excess of expectation of return.
Objectives: To assess the level of altruism and factors influencing altruism among medical students at a m...
Sanjai S, Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
August 08, 2017
A cross-sectional study among adult inpatients with non-organic psychiatric disorders, and among their key relatives, assessed their comprehension and recall of key information in consent forms. It also assessed their capacity to consent to participate in two hypothetical randomised controlled tr...
Donae Elizabeth George, Saumil Dholakia, Prathap Tharyan
August 01, 2017
This study assessed the perspectives of adults who had acute nonorganic psychiatric disorders and were admitted in a private, not for- profit medical college hospital, and also of their key relatives, on randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Structured questionnaires and audio-recorded interviews ...
Donae Elizabeth George, Saumil Dholakia, Prathap Tharyan