Schucan Bird Karen, Stokes Nicola, Tomlinson Martha, Rivas Carol
Social Research Institute, University College London, 10 Woburn Sq, London, WC1H 0NR UK.
SafeLives, Suite 2a, Whitefriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol, BS1 2NT UK.
J Fam Violence. 2023 Apr 3:1-15. doi: 10.1007/s10896-023-00541-7.
Systematic reviews have an important, and growing, role to play in the global evidence eco-system of domestic violence and abuse. Alongside substantive contributions to knowledge, such reviews stimulate debates about ethical reviewing practices and the importance of tailoring methods to the nuances of the field. This paper aims to pinpoint a set of ethical and methodological priorities to guide and enhance review practices specifically in the field of domestic abuse.
The five Pillars of the (ethical guidelines for domestic abuse research) are used to interrogate the systematic review process. To do so, the is retrospectively applied to a recently completed systematic review in domestic abuse. The review included a rapid systematic map and in-depth analysis of interventions aimed at creating or enhancing informal support and social networks for victim-survivors of abuse.
Ethical and methodological priorities for systematic reviews in domestic abuse include (1) Safety and wellbeing: maintaining the wellbeing of researchers and stakeholders, and appraising the ethics of included studies, (2) Transparency/ accountability: transparent reporting of research funding, aims and methods together with explicit consideration of authorship of outputs, (3) Equality, human rights and social justice: developing diverse review teams/ Advisory groups, and review methods that aim to search for, and report, diverse perspectives. Considering researcher positionality/ reflexivity in the review, (4) Engagement: collaboration with non-academic stakeholders and individuals with lived experience throughout the review process, (5) Research Ethics: independent ethical scrutiny of systematic review proposals with input from researchers with expertise in systematic reviews and domestic abuse.
Additional research is required to comprehensively examine the ethics of each stage of the review process. In the meantime, attention should be given to the underpinning ethical framework for our systematic review practices and the wider research infrastructure that governs reviews.
系统评价在家庭暴力与虐待的全球证据生态系统中发挥着重要且日益重要的作用。除了对知识做出实质性贡献外，此类评价还引发了关于伦理审查实践以及根据该领域细微差别调整方法的重要性的辩论。本文旨在确定一套伦理和方法优先事项，以指导和加强特别是在家庭暴力领域的评价实践。
采用（家庭暴力研究伦理准则）的五大支柱来审视系统评价过程。为此，将该准则追溯应用于最近完成的一项关于家庭暴力的系统评价。该评价包括一个快速系统图谱以及对旨在为虐待受害者幸存者建立或加强非正式支持和社会网络的干预措施的深入分析。
家庭暴力系统评价的伦理和方法优先事项包括：（1）安全与福祉：维护研究人员和利益相关者的福祉，并评估纳入研究的伦理问题；（2）透明度/问责制：透明报告研究资金、目标和方法，并明确考虑产出的作者身份；（3）平等、人权和社会正义：组建多元化的评价团队/咨询小组，以及旨在寻找和报告不同观点的评价方法。在评价中考虑研究人员的立场/反思性；（4）参与：在整个评价过程中与非学术利益相关者和有实际经验的个人合作；（5）研究伦理：在系统评价提案方面进行独立的伦理审查，并听取在系统评价和家庭暴力方面具有专业知识的研究人员的意见。
需要进行更多研究以全面审视评价过程各阶段的伦理问题。与此同时，应关注我们系统评价实践的基础伦理框架以及管理评价的更广泛研究基础设施。
