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Ethical Considerations in Family Studies – the Example of Famresplan Research Project

Ethical issues in research with the families will be discussed in this paper as a part of symposium about challenges of family studies. Experiences of the research project “The specific characteristics of families at risk: contribution to complex interventions planning (FamResPlan)” conducted at Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, will be presented and analyzed. The aim of the project is to gain insight and new knowledge about families at-risk, specifically within the frame of concepts as resilience, readiness for change and quality of life. Family studies are very complex and challenging due to many reasons, and especially because of ethical considerations. The FamResPlan research started from wellknown ethical principles, which are then developed within the framework of specific ethical aspects of the family studies. General ethical principles of the research process that are followed in the project are (1) importance of full information provision on the objectives and study research procedures, (2) autonomy of subjects in deciding on participation in the study, (3) confidentiality of data, (4) protection of the participants' well-being and (5) benefit from the knowledge (Rimac & Ogresta, 2012). Moreover, attention in the discussion will be paid to ethical issues specific to both, quantitative and qualitative research methods. The research team developed tailor-made model of ethical principles, which provides guidelines for the research and therefore is relevant for FamResPlan research topic and design. Note: This work has been fully supported by Croatian Science Foundation under the project IP-2014-09-9515.

ethical issues, families at risk, research with the families

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