Analysis on The Status of Prospective Clinical Researches Related to Korean Oriental Medicine and their Ethical Aspects

국내 한의학 관련 학술지에 게재된 전향적 임상연구의 윤리적 측면 분석

  • Received : 2012.09.17
  • Accepted : 2012.11.25
  • Published : 2012.12.25

Abstract

In this research, the status of prospective clinical researches related to Korean Oriental Medicine was identified from the papers published in domestic Korean medicine journals for the past 10 years, and the ethical validity of them were evaluated. Selection of researches and assessment on the ethical validity were made from the evaluation of two independent persons and the adjustment of the third party, and the collected data was analyzed using SPSS 17.0 software. The yearly status of prospective clinical researches related to Korean oriental medicine showed that the average number of them, which was six before 2005, was decreased to only one in 2006, and it started to recover gradually after 2007. The result of ethical validity test of prospective clinical researches related to oriental medicine showed that 5 researches (12.2%) in "unbiased selection of subjects and recruitment", 15 researches (36.6%) in "informed consent", 10 researches (24.4%) in "ethical considerations for vulnerable subjects", and 8 researches (19.5%) in "pre-deliberation and ethical oversight of the IRB" were appropriate to the ethical standards. The interest for clinical researches has been increased, and the ethical aspect of the clinical researches has been emphasized in oriental medicine. The results reported here are expected to provide a help to perform an ethical oriental medicine related clinical researches.

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Acknowledgement

Grant : 사상체질의학 연구의 국제적 활성화를 위한 베트남 협력 임상연구

Supported by : 한국한의학연구원

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