Electronic informed consent criteria for research ethics review: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The research shows a growing trend in using an electronic platform to supplement or replace traditional paper-based informed consent processes. Instead of the traditionally written informed consent document, electronic informed consent (eConsent) may be used to assess the research subject's comprehension of the information presented. By doing so, respect for persons as one of the research ethical principles can be upheld. Furthermore, these electronic methods may reduce potential airborne infection exposures, particularly during the pandemic, thereby adhering to the beneficence and nonmaleficence principle. This scoping review aims to identify the ethics related criteria that have been included in electronic informed consent processes and to synthesize and map these crit

SUBMITTER: Yusof MYPM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9682656 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature