Research Involving Children and Adolescents in Situations of Violence: Ethical Aspects to be Considered
Around the world, an alarming number of children and adolescents experience violence daily. In childhood, traumatic stress experienced early
in response to violence can impair brain architecture, immune status, metabolic systems, inflammatory responses, and even genetic structure. Damages resulting from violence are related to major causes of death in adulthood, including non-communicable diseases, HIV, mental and reproductive
health problems, and even suicide. Researches that directly involve victims are considered essential tools for the correct dimensioning of the problem and for the planning of actions aimed at facing violence against children and adolescents.
It is fundamental to consider the ethical aspects in the
design and development of such research conducted in physically, socially and emotionally vulnerable populations. “I hope all the efforts made to create parameters and
guidelines, the result of so many simultaneous voices clamoring
for quality of life and under the influx of so many preventable
deaths, are accompanied by consistent and necessary sectorial and
intersetorial actions. The health sector, in addition to the prevention
tradition, sees care as an ethos, which differs from the praxis of
public security, which aims to repress crimes and misdemeanors.
This tradition of care and prevention can make all the necessary
and appropriate difference.
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