Review ethical principles learned and discussed this week. Using the University Library, locate one current (2010 to present) US-based health or healthcare related peer-reviewed research study with possible ethical concerns. As peer-reviewed, there will be no ethical issues, but consider ethical standards as related to each step in the research process. Be sure it is research study, not an editorial, commentary, news brief or review. The focus should be on the research process, not the specific health or healthcare issue. Consider possible ethical concerns in the research process such as recruitment, sampling, research methodology, data collection or data collection instrument, etc.
You may use a research study you identified in the Week 2 Annotated Bibliography assignment if appropriate, but not the same article used in the Week 3 Team assignment. If so, do not self-plagiarize or copy/paste content from your week-2 assignment. Do not write about historic unethical research studies, such as Tuskegee Syphilis, MLK Ultra, Henrietta Lacks, etc. as no current record of peer-reviewed original research study. Write a 500- to 1000-word paper addressing the following:
Discuss the importance of research design validity and how research bias can impact the validity.
Hint: Review how research design validity and instrumentation validity are different concepts.
Discuss how stakeholders can externally influence healthcare research. Include possible ethical concerns.
Cites at least 3 US-based peer-reviewed scholarly references, including the research article discussed. DO NOT use UOP Course Strategy Guide, “.com” commercial, “.edu” education, .net or “.org” proprietary sources. Okay to use one .gov reference from US health agency.
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Research design validity is very crucial in a study because it develops reliability standards. It also creates consistency of results, which is vital in research studies. Further, according to Simundic (2013), the intentional and unintentional bias in research can positively or negatively impact validity. In most cases, the inclination is developed by confusing research design validity and instrumentation validity concepts, which are very different. Bias creates false conclusions which produce unethical concerns in research, as indicated by the above-stated study.
How Stakeholders Can Externally Influence Healthcare Research
As indicated by the authors of this EHRs study, stakeholders can externally influence research studies. For instance, the nursing scope and code of ethics have provided the guiding principle for ethical research in this study.
