As internet is, now-a-days, a useful tool for data collection and research, issues also go hand in hand with ethical approval and informed consent. As participants are, by default, give their consents as they comply with the survey, still the question of ethical approval remains unanswered. While there is no need to obtain ethical approval in secondary data and in some similar circumstances, what about primary research of internet based survey?
ANY CHECKLIST OR GUIDELINES AVAILABLE TO CONDUCT QUESTIONNAIRE BASED SURVEY
Dear Chiranjivi Adhikari, Researchers are required to consider the ethical risk of any procedure within a research project which involves human participants or personal data, consulting the relevant Faculty, Department, School, and University policies and personnel, before any work is undertaken. Ethical procedures are compulsory for researches involving humans and animals, digitally or not.
Chiranjivi Adhikari Yes, clearance from the ethical review board is appropriate.
Dear Leonardo Mataruna, AK Pandya
Thank you for your contributions.
Dear Dr. Umamaheswari, I will share when I find.
As an internet survey questionnaire can post potential harms to the research participants, it is advisable to consult an ethics review committee before conducting the research.
Thank you for this important query sir. I was also wondering the same "if an online survey required to have ethical approval or not?"
"Ethical approval is needed in every research involving human participants irrespective of the data collection medium."... this is clear to me now. All thanks to the respected researcher's responses.
However, I have an additional query about this issue...
As the online survey could include participants from multiple countries... Is it enough to acquire ethical approval from the ethical review committee of a country or is the ethical approval from all the countries is required or are there any international bodies that should be consulted for approval?
Buenos días, todo trabajo de investigación, en el que se vaya a solicitar a los participantes su intervención, ya sea física o intelectual, debe contar con el consentimiento informado.
I agree with Leonardo Mataruna , Apurva Kumar Pandya and Soraj Hongladarom .
Best regards
Good morning, all research work, in which participants will be asked to intervene, whether physical or intellectual, must have informed consent.
This is a huge hindrance to research work - in a questionnaire that e.g. deals with experiences on the accessibility of websites (no sensitive private data asked), can be interrupted anytime by anybody and implements a possibility for the total deletion of the data given so far (good survey tools provide such a functionality and also don´t store data on unknown servers overseas) why do I need to ask for ethical approval in EVERY case?
Informed consent, ok, GDPR, ok but ethical approval? If I approach people from 13 countries, which approval body shall I ask? the one from my country? The belgian one if it is EU research work? All countries? An unknown global ethical approval body?
This is a prior-to-event excessive reaction that is really dangerous to unbiased research.
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