Ethical issues in research with refugees

Therapists’ experience of working with refugees and asylum seekers who have been tortured: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

“…For example, research on their mental health, self-harm, sexual orientation, or experiences of sexual violence carries high risks of stigmatization or ostracism if identifying information is disclosed, particularly if their participation in such research is misconstrued. Thus, in cases in which participants are asked to provide narratives of their lived experiences as sanctuary seekers, protocols must be followed to ensure that strict confidentiality is upheld (Deps et al, 2022). With regard to therapeutic work with refugee children and their families, basic ethical principles such as autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice should be taken into consideration at every stage of offering support.…”

Resilience, mental health, and exposure to violence among individuals with former or current experiences of being a refugee in Sweden : quantitative and qualitative studies

“…At the same time, the fact that there are populations that are methodologically more difficult to research is well established, and refugee children are one such population (Shaghaghi, Bhopal, & Sheikh, 2011). Further, the ethical considerations for researching children are stricter which sometimes causes delays in researching this often-ignored group, and children are usually considered vulnerable by ethics committees and regulations (Deps, Rezende, Andrade, & Collin, 2022) in contrast to how children themselves describe their potential role in research (Wright, 2015). It has also been argued that exclusion itself could be harmful to vulnerable populations.…”

Maximizing biomedical research impacts through bioethical considerations

“…It is worth noting that different subfields may have more specific guidelines. For example, bioethical guidelines can be tailored for research that involves vertebrate or invertebrate animals, human samples, or patients and/or healthy participants, particularly those from minority populations, such as Indigenous people or migrants ( Anekwe, 2015 ; Claw et al, 2018 ; Deps et al, 2022 ).…”