NSG 7220 Week 8 Discussion Legal Evidence and Application

Sample Answer

Hello Kerrin. Legal and ethical issues form a critical element of modern research concerning the research participants and the researcher. The Declaration of Helsinki established the principles implemented in clinical studies concerning human subjects. The objective of clinical research is collecting and evaluating data to enable the researcher to come to a conclusion.

The results can be generalized, enhancing clinical practice and improving patient outcomes. It is important to understand that ethical and legal issues are critical, especially when dealing with adolescent participants. For instance, Bauman et al. (2020) conducted a study concerning parental permission when dealing with adolescents of new behavioral and biomedical HIV preventive interventions.

Falcon et al. (2018) also conducted a study examining barriers to research concerning the implementation of an intervention for alcohol detection and BI for minors. It is important to understand that adolescents are a specially protected population with unmet health needs. There is less research on this population since they are perceived as vulnerable and require safeguards from research involvement (Loveday et al., 2022).

As a result, research has sought to obtain parental consent, which prolonged the approval process and sometimes excluded them from adolescents. The question, therefore, is who should provide informed consent concerning health research involving adolescents.

References

• Bauman, L. J., Mellins, C. A., & Klitzman, R. (2020). Whether to waive parental permission in HIV prevention research among adolescents Ethical and legal considerations. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 48(1), 188–201. https //doi.org/10.1177/1073110520917010
  
• Falcón, M., Navarro-Zaragoza, J., García-Rodríguez, R. M., Nova-López, D., González-Navarro, M. D., Mercadal, M., García-Algar, O., & Luna Ruiz-Cabello, A. (2017). Perceived barriers to implementing screening and brief intervention for alcohol consumption by adolescents in hospital emergency department in Spain. Adicciones, 30(3), 189. https //doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.896
  
• Loveday, M., Goga, A., Dhai, A., Labuschaigne, M., Roussouw, T., Burgess, T., Strode, A., Wallace, M., Blockman, M., Daniels, B., Spooner, E., & Bekker, L.-G. (2022). Ethically acceptable consent approaches to adolescent research in South Africa. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 23(1). https //doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v23i1.1385