Bull Susan, Farsides Bobbie, Tekola Ayele Fasil
The Ethox Centre, Division of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom.
J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2012 Feb;7(1):37-52. doi: 10.1525/jer.2012.7.1.37.
Guidance requires that consent processes for research be appropriately tailored to their cultural context. This paper discusses the use of rapid assessments to identify cultural and ethical issues arising when explaining research in studies in The Gambia and Ethiopia. The assessments provided insights into appropriate ways of providing information to minimize the risk of stigmatizing vulnerable research populations; research participants' views about the most important information to provide about research and their understandings of research; and perceived constraints upon reaching voluntary decisions about participation. These insights demonstrate that rapid assessments are a relatively quick and inexpensive intervention that can provide valuable information to assist in the tailoring of information provision and consent processes to research context while maintaining and enhancing participants' fundamental protections.
指南要求研究的同意程序要根据其文化背景进行适当调整。本文讨论了使用快速评估来识别在向冈比亚和埃塞俄比亚的研究对象解释研究时出现的文化和伦理问题。这些评估提供了关于以适当方式提供信息以尽量减少污名化弱势研究人群风险的见解；研究参与者对提供研究最重要信息的看法以及他们对研究的理解；以及在做出参与研究的自愿决定时所感知到的限制。这些见解表明，快速评估是一种相对快速且成本低廉的干预措施，它可以提供有价值的信息，以协助根据研究背景调整信息提供和同意程序，同时维护和加强对参与者的基本保护。
