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Mosaic of Ethical Issues and Lessons Learnt in the Pilot-Study of Famresplan Research Projec

Ethical issues in family studies are always challenge for researchers no matter what methods are planned to be used in the research design. Plenty of ethical questions and possible answers will be presented in this presentation on the example of pilot study of FamResPlan research project. Ahead of the pilot-study, in the study planning phase, ethical consideration were observed and discussed in research team and it was decided about ethical standard which will be followed by researchers through the pilot- study with special emphasize on ethical challenges with no clear answers (e.g. compensation for participation in the study, providing adequate information about research to participants, gaining the informed consent in adequate way, ..). In order to assure high level of ethical principles, all members of research team agreed on decided ethical principles and established a Ethical Committee with internal and external experts who will provide guidance and support in the case of unexpected or expected but sensitive ethical issues as they occur. Experiences gained through the pilot study were useful to modification of beforehand established research team code of ethics and provided helpful insights in variety ethical challenges and possible solutions by which research team was guided in considering ethical issues for main FamResPlan study which is at the beginning of conducting. The basic belief about ethics as a process and not simple “questionanswer” phenomenon is widely implemented and accepted in the FamResPlan study by research team and as such will be discussed in the presentation with variety of examples how the ethical issues in the field were addressed.

ethical issues, family studies, at risk families

The project is founded by Croatian Science Foundation (CSF IP-2014-09-9515)