Participant Confidentiality : Information And Individual Responses

Confidentiality is a concept of vast importance for professionals in the medical field. It is a professional obligation in this field and is considered to be an ethical concept that falls in line with integrity, compassion, veracity, charity, and fidelity as explained in both the International Council of Nurses Code for Nurses (1973) and the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics (1985). However, in today’s ever growing world of technology and demand for information, challenges continue to arise that force doctors and nurses to reexamine virtues such as confidentiality.

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In the event of releasing any patient information it is important to make sure that all of your T’s are crossed and your I’s are dotted before the transaction is complete. However, because specialized patient records, such as Mental health or substance abuse cases, contain not only strictly medical information, but also therapeutic mental and emotional information, the release of this type of information could cause some damage to the patient (McWay, 2010, p. 227). This is why the release of information concerning this type of patient records is different from that of a patient record without delicate information in it.

NCHICA Research Work Group Privacy and Confidentiality Focus Group. (2001). Using Protected Health Information (PHI) for Research Purposes. Retrieved from http://www.nchica.org/HIPAAResources/Samples/PHI.pdf

A review of the proposed participants of the study will ensure high-risk groups (if any) will be considered as per the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (‘National Statement’; NHMRC, 2007). While some of these high-risk

Part I: The legal considerations would be to inform the participants that there would be no harm or risk to the participants. Since the participants are adolescents the researcher needs to obtain a secure informed consent from the parent or guardian before they participate. The researcher’s ethics are to provide full disclosure to the participants. The researcher should be open and honest to the participants regarding the study. The researcher’s ethical consideration is to protect the privacy of each participant. This can be accomplished by ensuring confidentiality and by having the data stored securely. Also, the researcher should

It is essential that robust methods are used in qualitative research as maintaining confidentiality is critical. Confidentiality issues must be addressed by the researcher in relation to individual participants as well as to the sites in which the research is conducted. With regard to individual participants, researchers may need to address confidentiality by using not only pseudonyms --non-identifying names in all written records, but also to be selective when describing defining characteristics of participants which could reveal their identity (Polit & Beck

The study was conducted to determine the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among family members of homicide victims (Sharpe, Osteen, Frey, & Michalopoulos, 2014). The authors made sure to get approval from the institutional review board (IRB) and started recruiting a sample of participants who met with a certain criteria (Sharpe et al., 2014). This criteria was not only to benefit the research study but also to make sure the research was ethical to the respondents. An example of one of the criteria was the respondent had to be “at least 18 years of age at the time of the study” (Sharpe et al., 2014, p.

Everyone is entitled to confidentiality unless they give permission for someone else to see their information or they can no longer make decisions on their own (for example, if they are confused or comatose). A federal law, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act applies to most health care physicians and its guideline, known as the Privacy Rule. The Privacy Rule sets specific rules regarding privacy, access, and disclosure of information. For example, HIPAA specifies the following:

But when those involved in these legitimate activities make demands that seem inappropriate, the records must be protected. Disclosure of personal medical information should also be subject to patients’ or families’ consent (Richmond et al. 2009).

- All participants agree to confidentiality in order to feel safe to work on their

In this paper, I will discuss the principles that permit disclosure of protected health information with or without the patient’s consent for each of the four categories, government agencies, legal agencies or representatives and research groups. I will also state whether I feel privacy safeguards are adequate to support those principles.

Participants personal information and documents should be kept confidential all time and should not be left in a car. Also, medical equipment is expensive and could be sensitive to the weather, so it should not be left in car. Ethical dilemma is privacy, confidentially, and lake of responsibility. If a good ethical judgment had been utilized, participant's personal information and forms sheets as well as equipment should have been taken back into the office. To prevent these kind of ethical issue, I suggest that the coordinator assign a team member ‘’ different from those who had been working all day’’ to take the equipment, carbon copies, consent sheets, and sign-in logs back to the office while the rest of team Clean up the site and dispose

I’ve learned that it’s not necessarily what we find out from research but, where we gathered the information. We should be careful with how we find out information. With all information gathered, we must also gather participants. It is essential that those whom take on the role of scientific researcher of psychology that the guidelines of the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct be followed (Cozby & Bates, 2015, p. 47). Confidentiality and privacy is very important within research. Confidentiality is an issue when a researcher has assured subjects that the collected data are only accessible to people with permission, generally only the researcher (Cozby & Bates, 2015, p. 50). One major step to ensure proper treatment is to gather informed consents. An informed consent allows all participants to understand all parts of research might influence their active decision of

First and foremost, the study participants will be identified, voluntary consent as well as approval from the University’s Institutional Review Board sought. Then, care will be taken to ensure that the names of the participants, as well as any other personal identifiers, are not attached to any study information and materials. Instead, names and other personal identifiers will be replaced with relevant codes and numbers. Also, any identifiable data will be encrypted, and documents and study data that aren’t needed anymore will be properly disposed. Furthermore, access to any identifiable information will be limited to authorized personnel only while data documents will be stored securely.