01379nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001260001000042653002100052100001400073700001500087245005100102856009800153300000900251490000700260520092800267022001401195       2022                            d  bLepra10aGeneral Medicine1 aButlin CR1 aPeters RMH00aEthical considerations for leprosy researchers  uhttps://leprosyreview.org/admin/public/api/lepra/website/getDownload/622ea7f2afaac156cf26a0d9  a2-110 v933 a<p>The aim of Leprosy Review (LR) is to contribute to the better understanding of leprosy and its control, mainly through publishing reports of research. Some authors are clinicians or field workers rather than being primarily scientists. As a member of a Research Ethics Committee under the UK Health Research Authority (CRB) and a university lecturer in research integrity (RP), and as Associate Editors of LR (both), we hope that this article will help such authors to recognise and manage the ethical aspects of their studies. We begin with commonly accepted statements of ethical principles, the application of these principles to particular circumstances, and then discuss Ethical Review and the issues it would cover; we then consider methods used by editorial boards to ensure ethical standards in their publications. Finally, we highlight some of the potentially difficult issues in leprosy-related research.</p>
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