Abstract

MOSCOSO LOAIZA, Luisa Fernanda  and  DIAZ HEREDIA, Luz Patricia. Ethical aspects in qualitative research with children. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.1, pp.51-67. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.2955.

The incorporation of children as participants in investigative studies is a more frequent practice now days due to the need to know and understand their vision about life experiences, which poses new challenges and responsibilities that focus mainly on ethical and methodological considerations of the investigation. This article describes the ethical aspects that should be taken into account in qualitative research with children. It is a review article with systematic search in databases, including scientific articles, books and gray literature. Likewise, we address the ethical considerations involved from the linking of the children as participants to the obtaining of the information and the socialization of the results. For the investigation, the relevant information was selected around eight subjects according to the investigative process. This showed that the ethical issue is a central aspect at the time of initiating and developing any research study, so it is present from its approach to its completion. It's concluded that compliance with criteria of methodological rigor such as dependency, credibility, transferability and confirmation, ensures the quality of qualitative research with children, and this allows the proper application of ethical principles of beneficence and non-maleficence, justice, autonomy and confidentiality.

Keywords : Qualitative research; research ethics; methodology; children.

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