Navigating ethical challenges in psychological research involving digital remote technologies and people who use alcohol or drugs.
Navigating ethical challenges in psychological research involving digital remote technologies and people who use alcohol or drugs.
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应对涉及数字远程技术和酗酒或吸毒者的心理学研究中的伦理挑战。
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10.1037/amp0001193
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2024
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Barnett,NancyP
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Roberts,Walter;McKee,SherryA;Miranda,Robert;Barnett,NancyP
数字和远程技术（DRT）越来越多地用于科学调查，以客观地衡量人类在日常活动中的行为。使用这些设备，心理学家和其他行为科学家可以调查健康风险行为，如药物和酒精的使用，通过仔细检查监测行为的原因和后果，因为它们是自然发生的。然而，当使用DRT方法对使用药物的人进行研究时，会出现复杂的伦理问题。这些问题必须得到识别和解决，以便DRT设备可以被纳入心理研究与这一人群的方式，符合美国心理协会的道德标准。在这篇文章中，我们讨论了使用DRT的行为研究与人谁使用物质的伦理后果。借鉴具有类似伦理问题的相关领域，我们向希望将DRT纳入自己研究的研究人员提出建议。主要议题包括：（a）对参与者和非参与者隐私的威胁和保护方法，（B）DRT研究中传统知情同意的缺点，（c）实时连续数据收集引入的研究人员责任，（d）经常用于管理和分析DRT数据的计算工具对分配正义的威胁，以及（e）“数字鸿沟”的伦理含义。最后，我们如何DRT可能提供更安全的替代金标准范式的物质使用研究，使研究人员能够测试假设，以前被禁止的道德理由，一个更乐观的讨论。
Digital and remote technologies (DRT) are increasingly being used in scientific investigations to objectively measure human behavior during day-to-day activities. Using these devices, psychologists and other behavioral scientists can investigate health risk behaviors, such as drug and alcohol use, by closely examining the causes and consequences of monitored behaviors as they occur naturalistically. There are, however, complex ethical issues that emerge when using DRT methodologies in research with people who use substances. These issues must be identified and addressed so DRT devices can be incorporated into psychological research with this population in a manner that comports the ethical standards of the American Psychological Association. In this article, we discuss the ethical ramifications of using DRT in behavioral studies with people who use substances. Drawing on allied fields with similar ethical issues, we make recommendations to researchers who wish to incorporate DRT into their own research. Major topics include (a) threats to and methods for protecting participant and nonparticipant privacy,(b) shortcomings of traditional informed consent in DRT research,(c) researcher liabilities introduced by real-time continuous data collection,(d) threats to distributive justice arising from computational tools often used to manage and analyze DRT data, and (e) ethical implications of the “digital divide.” We conclude with a more optimistic discussion of how DRT may provide safer alternatives to gold standard paradigms in substance use research, allowing researchers to test hypotheses that were previously prohibited on ethical grounds.