Basic Ethical Principles In The Belmont Report

The basic ethical principles, as described in the Belmont Report, are justice, respect for other persons, and beneficence (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). With any research project, there are responsibilities that a researcher must adhere to in order to protect human participants during an exploration for the betterment of science or a specialized field. These three ethical principles are the fundamental doctrines in which research practices have been based upon. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2014) declared the first principle, Justice, would ensure all individuals would be treated fairly and proper research procedures would be followed. The second principle, Respect for other persons, which was also taken from the Belmont Report, read that all individuals have to be provided informed consent and that they must be informed of the process before participating in any intervention.
Lastly, the ethical principle beneficence placed emphasis on the prevention of harming human subjects and to keep the intervention at a minimal risk; however, the researcher should also try to gain the best benefits from the intervention when the application of the intervention is initiated. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2014) cited human risk factors which included obtaining site permission, understanding the conflict of interest, one’s personal bias, and the use of intellectual property as the essential components when conducting research and applying these three ethical principles in applied action research situations. For that reason, the following is an analysis of these components in relationship to a possibly applied capstone deliverable for this community