Category: Research Articles
September 07, 2016
An ethical attitude denotes motivation and commitment in practice and is an important aspect of human communication. Values guide the efforts of human beings towards helping those in need, and an ethical attitude revives values and turns them into action. As a result, an ethical attitude and a se...
Soolmaz Moosavi, Fariba Borhani, Mohaddeseh Mohsenpour
October 10, 2016
Rapid industrialisation in India is giving employment to millions of people in the formal sector, and many more in the unorganised sector. However, the absence of clear policies, poorly enforced regulations, lack of systematic reporting of occupational diseases, lamentable socioeconomic condition...
Jagdish Patel, Siddarth David
July 19, 2016
The Government of India came out with a slew of notifications to streamline clinical research in the beginning of 2013 in response to the Supreme Court's orders and a Parliamentary Standing Committee's report. The notifications greatly influenced the structure, review process, outcomes and admini...
Shruti S Bhide, Sharmila V Jalgaonkar, Janhavi V Katkar, Yashashri C Shetty, Raakhi K Tripathi, Padmaja A Marathe, Urmila M Thatte
July 12, 2016
Mistreatment of medical students is a major source of stress for them. Studies indicate a high incidence of such mistreatment, especially in clinical settings. In most cases, students who have been mistreated do not report it to the authorities. This study investigated factors related to the fail...
Habibeh Ahmadipour, Reza Vafadar
July 04, 2016
The importance of addressing concerns of rural health worker welfare in order to improve their performance and retention is widely acknowledged; yet there is little empirical research on the needs of rural health professionals. We report findings from a qualitative research study in rural Chhatti...
Kabir Sheikh, Shinjini Mondal, Pratibha Patanwar, Babita Rajkumari, T. Sundararaman
July 04, 2016
The principles of bioethics have been identified as important requirements for training basic medical doctors. Till now, various modalities have been used for teaching bioethics, such as lectures, followed by a small case-based discussion, case vignettes or debates among students. For effective t...
Radhika H Pandya, Radha Shukla, Alpa P Gor, Barna Ganguly
April 16, 2016
Doctor–patient interaction is a subject with ethical ramifications, besides being an important issue in medical sociology. The main goal of this critical study is to explore the interactional experience of hospital admitted patients. For this reason, the study, carried out in an educational hospi...
Ahmad Kalateh Sadati, Mohammad Taghi Iman, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Soghra Derakhshan
January 25, 2016
The process of double ethical review involves the ethics committees (ECs) in the country(ies) of the research site(s) and of the sponsor. This paper aims to assess the experience of the double ethical review in the Ebola-Tx trial, and to make general recommendations for research conducted during ...
Maaike De Crop, Alexandre Delamou, Johan Van Griensven, Raffaella Ravinetto
February 29, 2016
The quality of informed consent forms (ICFs) remains an issue in clinical research. The lengthy and complicated ICFs currently being used lower research participants' ability to read and understand the information provided therein. In collaboration with the Strategic Initiative for Developing Cap...
Nut Koonrungsesomboon, Junjira Laothavorn, Vichai Chokevivat, Kenji Hirayama, Juntra Karbwang
May 05, 2016
To determine the ethical problems faced by dental practitioners, a cross-sectional survey was conducted in Bapuji Dental College and Hospital, College of Dental Sciences and private dental clinics in the city of Davangere. A questionnaire with close-ended questions on eight scenarios was administ...
Priyanka SG, Hitashi Singla, Denzy Lawrence, Veeresh DJ