Hello Marianne
I agree with your point of view related to ethical clearance and internet
research. I am a midwife and PhD student and I am currently using the net
to collect data. I have developed a data collection process and tool for
this phase of my data collection and I have ethical clearance for
implementation. I have contacted Lesley and offered to share my experiences
and processes with her. If you are interested in this as well, please get
in touch with me.
With warm regards,
Trish Schneider.
t 07:58 AM 7/30/99 +1000, you wrote:
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>In a message dated 29/07/1999 16:37:41 GMT Daylight Time,
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>> would people find it acceptable to
>> receive a questionnaire from me, via email, as part of my data
>collection?
>
>I hate to be a pain in the sacro-coccygeal joint, but I think it is
>important
>that the principles that apply for any research using human subjects also
>apply to the use of mail lists on the Internet. That means that if ethical
>approval has been granted and the sampling procedure does indicate that the
>convenience sample that this List must be can be accessed, then I think
>that
>is OK. But if the ethical approval does not include using the likes of us
>as
>subjects, then I think it should not.
>
>I think that simply in terms of methodology, it may be difficult to justify
>the use of people on this List on the basis that it has to be so biased as
>to
>be more than probably totally unrepresentative of midwives in general.
>Furthermore the List is accessed much further than the UK and this would
>create serious problems of analysis if the questionnaire was not
>specifically
>written with an international audience in mind, or at least recruited
>subjects on very specific entry criteria.
>
>I think that the research subject is quite interesting, but I have doubts
>about the use of this medium as a recruitment agent.
>
>This is a personal view, but I would be interested to hear other points of
>view.
>
>Marianne Mead
>
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