Table 3.
Main issues for which studies involving minority groups were deferred/not approved, 2009-2012
| Main issues |
Studies involving minority groups |
All studies |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Deferment |
Non-approval |
Deferment |
Non-approval |
|
| n = 2 | n = 3 | n = 8 | n = 6 | |
| No scientific merit |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
| Unsound research methodology |
2 |
3 |
4 |
6 |
| Risk-benefit concerns (individual and community) |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
| Human rights violations |
- |
1 |
- |
1 |
| No FTM staff involvement and/or not implemented within FTM |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
| Required ethical clearance from elsewhere (Ministry of Public Health), not from FTM-EC |
- |
- |
1 |
1 |
| Research conducted and completed before ethical clearance requested | - | - | 1 | - |