title: Ethical issues in neuroimaging health research: an IPA study with research participants.
abstract: Neuroimaging is increasingly used to understand conditions like stroke and epilepsy. However, there is growing recognition that neuroimaging can raise ethical issues. We used interpretative phenomenological analysis to analyse interview data pre-and post-scan to explore these ethical issues. Findings show participants can become anxious prior to scanning and the protocol for managing incidental findings is unclear. Participants lacked a frame of reference to contextualize their expectations and often drew on medical narratives. Recommendations to reduce anxiety include dialogue between researcher and participant to clarify understanding during consent and the use of a ;virtual tour' of the neuroimaging experience.
authors.affiliation: School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. r.l.shaw@aston.ac.uk
authors.forename: Rachel L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Senior
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Peel
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cooke
authors.forename: Louise S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Donnelly
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D032962:Consent Forms; D032984:Ethics, Research; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology*; D035842:Research Subjects / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult