Informed Consent in Health Research

Challenges and Barriers in Low‐and Middle‐Income Countries with Specific Reference to Nepal

Bibliographic Data

ID19516622
AuthorsPramod Regmi (0000-0003-0226-3894, Bournemouth University, corresponding author), Pramod R Regmi, Nirmal Aryal (0000-0002-4835-0785), Om Kurmi (0000-0002-9518-4716), Puspa Raj Pant (0000-0002-8827-0018), Edwin Van Teijlingen (0000-0001-5523-8583), Sharada Prasad Wasti (0000-0001-8833-7801)
Year2017
Volume17
Issue2
Pages84-89
Publication date2017-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDeveloping World Bioethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1471-8731 • E-ISSN: 1471-8847
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/dewb.12123
PMID27518590
OpenAlexW2509213164
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Obtaining ‘informed consent’ from every individual participant involved in health research is a mandatory ethical practice. Informed consent is a process whereby potential participants are genuinely informed about their role, risk and rights before they are enrolled in the study. Thus, ethics committees in most countries require ‘informed consent form’ as part of an ethics application which is reviewed before granting research ethics approval. Despite a significant increase in health research activity in low‐and middle‐income countries ( LMIC s) in recent years, only limited work has been done to address ethical concerns. Most ethics committees in LMIC s lack the authority and/or the capacity to monitor research in the field. This is important since not all research, particularly in LMIC s region, complies with ethical principles, sometimes this is inadvertently or due to a lack of awareness of their importance in assuring proper research governance. With several examples from Nepal, this paper reflects on the steps required to obtain informed consents and highlights some of the major challenges and barriers to seeking informed consent from research participants. At the end of this paper, we also offer some recommendations around how can we can promote and implement optimal informed consent taking process. We believe that paper is useful for researchers and members of ethical review boards in highlighting key issues around informed consent

Alternative medicine · Criminology · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Engineering ethics · Environmental health · Ethical issues · Informed consent · Low and middle income countries · Low income · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Ethics in Clinical Research · Ethics in medical practice · Medicine · Psychology

Tools

Open DOISci-HubOpen Access