title: Ethical issues in qualitative studies.
abstract: Research interviews can expose individuals' inner thoughts and beliefs. The researcher must consider the participants' interests. Those interests might be best served by a well thought-out scheme for ensuring anonymity. The researcher must guard against inadvertent clues to participants' identity, through well-known individual views or language idiosyncrasies. Ownership of data must be considered. Ethically speaking, permission to undertake research does not automatically grant permission to publish the results.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paddison
mesh_terms: D035841:Behavioral Research; D003219:Confidentiality; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009721:Nurse Midwives; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012106:Research; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations; D035502:Trust