Farajkhoda Tahmineh, Latifnejad Roudsari Robab, Abbasi Mahmoud
Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. ; Nursing and Midwifery School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Patient Safety and Health Quality Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Iran J Reprod Med. 2013 Jan;11(1):31-8.
Research in reproductive health (RH) has been located in the core of women's health research. Providing accurate information through conducting scientific and controlled research is essential, but increased number of research in the world especially in developing countries in RH area in order to introduce advanced technologies has been resulted in much unethical, illegal and abusive research on women, which needs particular attention to ethical issues by the practitioners who are involved in RH research.
This study was conducted to develop a practical ethical framework for RH research.
45 expert academics and clinicians in various disciplines included in a three rounds Delphi study through purposeful sampling method. In round 1 Delphi data were gathered using open-ended questions by e-mail and answers were analyzed by conventional content analysis and the findings merged and validated with the results of a thorough literature review. Face and content validity index were determined in round 2 Delphi and consensuses were attained in round 3.
Emerged categories were 1) management of the research process 2) protection of participants' rights 3) third party consent 4) gender sensitive research and 5) conflict of interest.
This study has provided a practical ethical framework according to the socio-cultural context of Iran for all practitioners who are involved in research on women. Adherence to this framework may protect practitioners against unethical and illegal lawsuits and help them to respect their clients' reproductive rights.
生殖健康研究一直处于女性健康研究的核心。通过开展科学且可控的研究来提供准确信息至关重要，但为引入先进技术，全球尤其是发展中国家生殖健康领域的研究数量不断增加，导致了许多针对女性的不道德、非法和滥用性研究，这需要参与生殖健康研究的从业者特别关注伦理问题。
本研究旨在为生殖健康研究制定一个实用的伦理框架。
通过目的抽样法，45位各学科的专家学者和临床医生参与了三轮德尔菲研究。在第一轮中，通过电子邮件使用开放式问题收集德尔菲数据，并采用常规内容分析法对答案进行分析，研究结果与全面文献综述的结果合并并验证。在第二轮德尔菲中确定了表面效度和内容效度指数，并在第三轮中达成了共识。
出现的类别有1）研究过程管理2）参与者权利保护3）第三方同意4）性别敏感研究和5）利益冲突。
本研究根据伊朗的社会文化背景，为所有参与女性研究的从业者提供了一个实用的伦理框架。遵守该框架可能会保护从业者免受不道德和非法诉讼，并帮助他们尊重客户的生殖权利。
