Ethical review procedures in international internet-based intervention studies.

Ethical review IRB, institutional review boards International study Internet-based research REC, research ethics committee Research ethics committees

Journal

Internet interventions
ISSN: 2214-7829
Titre abrégé: Internet Interv
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101631612

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Apr 2022
Historique:
received: 21 12 2020
revised: 19 11 2021
accepted: 24 11 2021
entrez: 1 6 2022
pubmed: 2 6 2022
medline: 2 6 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

International internet-based studies could be accessible by participants from various countries worldwide. However, the jurisdiction of research ethics committees (RECs) or institutional review boards (IRBs) is bound to geographical state or country borders. How can researchers deal with the geographical boundaries in the jurisdiction of RECs/IRBs versus the worldwide, open character of international internet-based research? Should ethical approval be sought in each country where participants will be recruited? In this paper, we want to share our challenges in setting up the ethical review procedures in an international internet-based mHealth intervention study, to further the discussion on ethical procedures in internet-based research.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35646602
doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2021.100487
pii: S2214-7829(21)00127-5
pmc: PMC9136336
doi:

Types de publication

Editorial

Langues

eng

Pagination

100487

Informations de copyright

© 2021 The Authors.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Auteurs

Anne Looijmans (A)

University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Health Psychology, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, the Netherlands.

Simon S Spahrkäs (SS)

University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Health Psychology, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, the Netherlands.

Robbert Sanderman (R)

University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Health Psychology, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, the Netherlands.
Department of Psychology, Health & Technology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands.

Mariët Hagedoorn (M)

University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Health Psychology, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, the Netherlands.

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