Protecting Respondent Confidentiality in Qualitative Research
By Karen Kaiser. Qualitative Health Research, 2009
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For qualitative researchers, maintaining respondent confidentiality while presenting rich, detailed accounts of social life presents unique challenges. These challenges are not adequately addressed in the literature on research ethics and research methods. Using an example from a study of breast cancer survivors, I argue that by carefully considering the audience for one’s research and by reenvisioning the informed consent process, qualitative researchers can avoid confidentiality dilemmas that might otherwise lead them not to report rich, detailed data.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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- A rose by any other name: participants choosing research pseudonyms (2016, background): “masking identities only from general consumers of the research, but not from those who know the participant or their online personae well (Kaiser 2009; Roberts 2015; Thompson & Russo 2012).”
- Trauma-Informed Practices in Schools Across Two Decades: An Interdisciplinary Review of Research (2019, background): “Discussions of the ethics of deductive disclosure exist across many fields (e.g., Kaiser, 2009; Sanjari, Bahramnezhad, Fomani, Shoghi, & Cheraghi, 2014), providing the rationale for inclusion of demographic information and useful guidelines to avoid harm to particular populations (Schenk &…”