Doing participant observation in a psychiatric hospital- Research ethics resumed

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2296-2306

  Oeye, Christine ^a   Bjelland, Anne Karen ^b   Skorpen, Aina ^a  

^a WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Informed consent; Norway; Participant observation; Psychiatric ward; Research ethics; Voluntariness; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HOSPITAL SECTOR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RESEARCH;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; EPISTEMOLOGY; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL PATIENT; NORWAY; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESEARCH ETHICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SOCIOLOGY; VOLUNTEER; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ETHICS, RESEARCH; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTAL COMPETENCY; NORWAY; OBSERVATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 36049019586     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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