[Air-l] FW: Re: consent for asynchronous qualitative email

[C Cook or A McDonald]

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From: C Cook or A McDonald [mailto:bodhi at nznet.gen.nz] 
Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:44
To: 'air-l at listserv.aoir.org'
Subject: Re: [Air-l] consent for asynchronous qualitative email

 

Thank you for your reply and suggestions, Kristin. I anticipate that I will
be able to obtain ethics approval as a number of other nurse researchers
internationally have used in-depth email interviews for 'sensitive' topics,
using a variety of mechanisms to protect participants' confidentiality to a
level considered adequate to enable ease of participation and reasonable
security. The use of g-mail, hotmail and encryption all allow for
anonymising participants. It is specifically the consent procedures that are
currently a focus for me.

Kind regards,

Catherine Cook

PhD candidate

 

Message: 5

Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:03:14 -0400 (EDT)

From: "Kristin R. Wolfe" <wolfek857 at duq.edu>

Subject: Re: [Air-l] consent for asynchronous qualitative email

      interviews withinternational participants

I believe that an email interview may not get past the ethics review

because the name of the participant would be tied to the email. 

 

> I am a PhD candidate and I am preparing for my ethics application to

> conduct

> interviews by email in the area of women's sexual health (ie 'sensitive'

> topic). From the literature there seem to be a variety of acceptable

> options

> with regard to consent, from tacit agreement inherent in the decision to

> participate through to a variety of procedures to obtain some form of

> consent documentation. 

>