- Title
- The use of deception in public health behavioral intervention trials: a case study of three online alcohol trials
- Creator
- McCambridge, Jim; Kypri, Kypros; Bendtsen, Preben; Porter, John
- Relation
- NHMRC.569265 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/569265
- Relation
- The American Journal of Bioethics Vol. 13, Issue 11, p. 39-47
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2013.839751
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Some public health behavioral intervention research studies involve deception. A methodological imperative to minimize bias can be in conflict with the ethical principle of informed consent. As a case study, we examine the specific forms of deception used in three online randomized controlled trials evaluating brief alcohol interventions. We elaborate our own decision making about the use of deception in these trials, and present our ongoing findings and uncertainties. We discuss the value of the approach of pragmatism for examining these kinds of ethical issues that can arise in research on public health interventions.
- Subject
- public health; research ethics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1301192
- Identifier
- uon:20234
- Identifier
- ISSN:1526-5161
- Rights
- Copyright ©Jim McCambridge, Kypros Kypri, Preben Bendtsen, and John Porter. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
- Language
- eng
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