2020/11/17 by Florence Ashley · 1 voice · 2 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · #Biomedical Ethics and Regulation #Ethics in Clinical Research #Ethics in medical practice
paper · doi:10.1111/bioe.12829
openalex publication_date 2020/11/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/04
How to account for participants' psychological and emotional exhaustion with research has been under-explored in the research ethics literature. Research fatigue, as it is known, has significant impacts on patients' well-being and their ongoing and future participation in studies. From the perspective of researchers and researched communities, research fatigue also creates selection bias and opportunity costs, negatively impacting the collective scientific enterprise. Institutional Review Boards should systematically consider research fatigue during the research approval process and strive to mitigate it.