Question

A researcher conducts a survey of people who use anxiety medications, recruited through an advertisement in the local paper. the researcher promises confidentiality, but accidentally leaves a folder of signed consent forms at a cyber cafe. the manager of the cafe looks through the folder so it can be returned to right patron. the researcher has violated:

Answer 1

The researcher has violated participant confidentiality and has made the validity of the study invalid. The people whose confidentiality was breached should be notified and they should have the right to revoke their information from the study. No one who believes they have participated with confidentiality should be subjected to having others know they were involved if they do not want that.