Table 3.

Frequencies and Percentages of Ethics Committee Concerns by Ethical Classifications.

Ethical Classification	EthicsCommittee Concern			Total
	Consent	Protocol	Forms	Frequency	Percentage
Justice	3	12	2	14	19%
Requires attention to participant recruitment	2	10	0	11	15%
Inclusion and exclusion criteria for selecting participants	1	2	2	3	4%
Beneficence	2	18	10	30	42%
Requires an examination of the experimental design	0	6	5	11	15%
Minimization of the risks of research participation	2	10	3	15	21%
Qualifications of the principal investigator to conduct the study	0	2	2	4	6%
Respect for Persons	24	15	5	41	57%
Requires attention to informed consent information, comprehension, and voluntariness	18	4	0	22	31%
Surrogate permission	1	1	0	1	1%
Maximization of choice	2	1	1	3	4%
Protection of privacy and confidentiality	0	5	4	8	11%
Protection of vulnerable population	3	4	0	7	10%
Untoward Effects	0	4	0	4	6%
Study staff safety	0	4	0	4	6%

Note: A single ethics committee concern may have multiple ethical labels, resulting in table totals in excess of the seventy-two substantive ethics committee concerns. In addition, one ethics committee concern could affect more than one content type resulting in a total greater than the overall frequency.