If a researcher unobtrusively studies interactions among patients in a psychiatric hospital, what might this be called?
A) Research misconduct
B) Breach of confidentiality
C) Covert data collection
D) Deception
C
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Covert data collection or concealment is collecting data without participants' knowledge and thus without their consent. This might happen if a researcher wanted to observe people's behavior and was concerned that doing so openly would change the behavior of interest. Ethical conduct in research involves not only protecting the rights of human and animal subjects, but also efforts to maintain high standards of integrity and avoid such forms of research misconduct as plagiarism, fabrication of results, or falsification of data. Another challenge that many qualitative researchers face is adequately disguising participants in their reports to avoid a breach of confidentiality. Deception can involve deliberately withholding information about the study, or providing participants with false information.
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