Ethical Clearance
Considering that research within the scope of JPKM: Jurnal Profesi Kesehatan Masyarakat involves human participation, every submitted article should meet the ethical clearance principles, including:
- Respecting human dignity and integrity
- Ensuring honesty and transparency toward research subjects
- Respecting individual autonomy and obtaining free and informed consent (as well as assent whenever relevant)
- Protecting vulnerable individuals
- Ensuring privacy and confidentiality
- Promoting justice and inclusiveness
- Minimizing harm and maximizing benefit
- Sharing the benefits with disadvantaged populations, especially if the research is being carried out in developing countries
- Respecting and protecting the environment and future generations.
This ethical clearance is needed especially for research involving humans with ‘High Risk’ (vulnerable groups, namely children, refugees, irregular migrants, sex workers, people with cognitive impairments, dissidents, traumatized people at risk of re-traumatization; and people in dependent relationships with the researcher or the research team).
For research under the ‘Negligible Risk’ (no human involvement/using secondary data) or ‘Low Risk’ (subjects and research issues are not “sensitive”) category, such documents are not required. However, the authors must submit a signed checklist proving that their research is in the Low Risk/Negligible Risk category. For an example of checklists, please click here.
