"What Do They Really Mean by Partnerships?" Questioning the Unquestionable Good in Ethics Guidelines Promoting Community Engagement in Indigenous Health Research

We present findings that community engagement—if done uncritically and in service to ethics guidelines rather than in service to ethical research—can itself cause harm by leading to community fatigue, undermining the community’s ability to be effectively involved in the research, and restricting the community’s ability to have oversight and control over research. We conclude by suggesting that the laudable goal of engaging communities in research requires careful reflection on the appropriate use of resources to operationalize meaningful collaboration.

Source: Qualitative Health Research - October 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Brunger, F., Wall, D. Tags: Ethics Source Type: research