Abstract

This research focuses on how research ethics committee and integrity board members discuss and decide on solutions to case scenarios that involve a dimension of research ethics or integrity in collaborative settings. The cases involved issues around authorship, conflict of interest, disregard of good scientific practice and ethics review, and research with vulnerable populations (children and neonates). The cases were set in a university, a hospital, or a research institute. In the research, we used a deductive qualitative approach with thematic analysis. Twenty-seven research ethics committee and research integrity board members from 16 European countries and one country outside Europe participated. Participants represented natural and life sciences, social sciences, and humanities. They worked on cases involving ethical/integrity issues in six different constellations. Results show that experts apply key elements of ethical decision making, namely identification of ethical issues, stakeholders, guidelines, solutions, and own positionality, in dealing collaboratively with ethics/ integrity problems, and the nature of the application depends on the complexity of the case. Understanding how individuals knowledgeable in research ethics and integrity, in this case, individuals serving on research ethics committees and integrity boards, approach ethical/ moral issues can help to identify strategies that may be useful in the development of research ethics and integrity training for junior researchers who may benefit from learning professional strategies.

中文翻译：

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研究伦理委员会和诚信委员会成员在培训案例中的协作决策

摘要

本研究重点关注研究伦理委员会和诚信委员会成员如何讨论和决定涉及合作环境中研究伦理或诚信维度的案例场景的解决方案。这些案件涉及作者身份、利益冲突、无视良好科学实践和伦理审查以及弱势群体（儿童和新生儿）研究等问题。这些案例发生在大学、医院或研究所。在研究中，我们使用了演绎定性方法和主题分析。来自 16 个欧洲国家和 1 个欧洲以外国家的 27 名研究伦理委员会和研究诚信委员会成员参加了会议。参与者来自自然科学和生命科学、社会科学和人文科学。他们处理了涉及六个不同星座的道德/诚信问题的案件。结果表明，专家在协作处理道德/诚信问题时应用道德决策的关键要素，即识别道德问题、利益相关者、指导方针、解决方案和自身立场，并且应用的性质取决于案件的复杂性。了解在研究伦理和诚信方面知识渊博的个人（在这种情况下，在研究伦理委员会和诚信委员会任职的个人）如何处理伦理/道德问题，有助于确定可能有助于初级研究人员开展研究伦理和诚信培训的策略谁可以从学习专业策略中受益。