Category: Research Articles
Workplace violence against healthcare professionals in China: A…
Medical workplace violence (WPV) has become an alarming phenomenon in China. Few studies exist concerning how this is represented in the news. This study investigated the prevalence, characteristics, and causes of WPV from major news portals and medical websites in China, to provide a direction o...
Relationship between autonomy and moral distress in emergency…
Reducing nurses' autonomy can impair their decision-making and ability for appropriate interventions. Lowered independence hinders ethical reasoning, which may lead to moral distress. This descriptive correlation study investigates the relationship between professional independence and moral dist...
Blowing the whistle: Perceptions of surgical staff and…
Understanding perspectives on whistleblowing is important in tackling a resistance to speaking out. This study aimed to elicit the views of medical students and doctors in Edendale Hospital, South Africa using a mixed-methods questionnaire study incorporating free text and tick-box answers. Thema...
Teaching ethics using games: Impact on Iranian nursing…
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...
A qualitative study of Institutional Ethics Committees: Members’…
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...
Integrating Ethics into the Physiology curriculum: a scale-up…
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...
Perceived need and attitudes towards communication skill training…
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...
Ethical gaps in conducting research among adult survivors…
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...
Audiovisual informed consent process in vaccine trials: Experience…
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...
Medical case reports published in PubMed-indexed Indian journals…
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...
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