ETHICS IN RESEARCH IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES.
Contributors: Union Institute (U.S.)
Published: 1995
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Health Sciences, Education.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Students pursuing a graduate degree in nursing were the sample in this study. They answered a 10-item questionnaire designed to measure their knowledge of ethics. The lowest possible score on the instrument was 0, the highest possible score was 10. Two weeks later, students took part in a three-hour interactive seminar on ethics. Two weeks after the ethics seminar they took a posttest, which was the same instrument as the pretest. Scores on the pretest ranged from 6-9; on the posttest the range was 5-9. Students also wrote a one to two page paper describing an ethical dilemma they had met, and how they dealt with it. When analyzed with the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test, there was no statistically significant difference in pretest and posttest scores. When the essays were reviewed it was evident that students were behaving in an ethical manner. There is incongruity between the quantitative and qualitative parts of the study. There are several possible reasons for this discrepancy. The instrument, self-developed by the researcher, may not be valid for measuring a knowledge of ethics. The sample size might have been too small. Only one geographical area was used. Students were not randomly chosen from a larger population. Some factors other than knowledge of ethics may affect ethical decision-making.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-01, Section: B, page: 0221.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNION INSTITUTE, 1995.

School code: 1033.