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ArticleEthics & human research2019

The Role of Inclusion Benefits in Ethics Committee Assessment of Research Studies.

Stuart Rennie, Suzanne Day, Allison Mathews, Adam Gilbertson, Winfred K Luseno, Joseph D Tucker, Gail E Henderson

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Article in Ethics & human research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Stuart RennieAssociate professor in the Department of Social Medicine and the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Suzanne DayPostdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Medicine and the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Allison MathewsPostdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Medicine and Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Adam GilbertsonPostdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Medicine and the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an associate research scientist at Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.
Winfred K LusenoResearch scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.
Joseph D TuckerAssociate professor at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Gail E HendersonProfessor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Funding

Ethics of HIV-Related Research Involving Adolescents in KenyaR01MH102125 · NIMH · PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION · PI LUSENO, WINFRED K · 2014 to 2018
$3.7M
Unintended and Intended Implications of HIV Cure: A Social and Ethical AnalysisR01AI108366 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI RENNIE, STUART, TUCKER, JOSEPH DAVID · 2013 to 2017
$2.9M
Integrating Decision Making Studies into HIV Cure Trials: A real-time longitudinal assessmentR01AI127024 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HENDERSON, GAIL E · 2016 to 2019
$2.2M
Acute Infection: Lived Experiences and Ethical Challenges in HIV ResearchR21AI120549 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI RENNIE, STUART · 2016 to 2017
$418k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI108366NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127024NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI120549NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH102125
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relationship between risks and benefits is central to the ethics of research involving human participants. Traditionally, to be ethically justifiable, risks should be reasonable in relation to anticipated benefits (if any) to subjects and to the potential social benefits resulting from research. This calculus is being further complicated by findings from an increasing number of social science studies that reveal that prospective and actual research participants frequently describe various types of inclusion benefits (for example, personal benefits such as access to or improved health care, increased knowledge about their disease or condition, and greater solidarity with the local community) as important to them. What is the ethical significance of such inclusion benefits, particularly those nonmedical in nature, for research ethics committees' risk-benefit assessment of research studies? We argue that, unless participants are clearly mistaken in their perceptions, ethics committees should take these types of inclusion benefits into account, and we suggest a few ways this might look in practice.

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Ethical ReviewEthics Committees, ResearchResearch SubjectsAdolescentAdultBiomedical ResearchHumansKenyaPatient SelectionRisk AssessmentSocial SciencesSocial Validity, ResearchThailandhuman research ethicsinclusion benefitsinstitutional review boardsresearch ethics committeesrisk-benefit assessment

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PMID31108576
PMCPMC8162785

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