Research Ethics Application: Diet, Exercise, and Child Health Study

This document presents a completed Research Ethics Panel Application form. The application details a qualitative research study focusing on how diet and exercise can improve the health and well-being of children. The study aims to identify healthy dietary practices for children and uses questionnaires to gather data from 20 parents. The application covers various aspects of the research design, including ethical considerations such as participant respect, data confidentiality, and risk assessment. It outlines participant recruitment methods, vulnerability considerations, and incentive plans. The application also details the consent procedure, ensuring informed consent through information sheets and consent forms. Furthermore, it addresses confidentiality, anonymity, and data management protocols. The application includes sections for researcher details, project title, timescale, costs, and funding, and is supported by a checklist and authorization from the supervisor.

Research Ethics Panel Application form
For additional guidance, please refer to the Ethics organisation on Blackboard, the University
Research Ethics Policy and the Code of Good.governance-and-policies/policies
Section 1: Researcher details
1.1 Contact details of researcher
Title miss Forename Surname
School:
Status: Employee Postgraduate
Research
Postgraduate
Taught
Undergraduate
yes
1.2 Co-applicants (please include everyone who will be involved in the research project,
including research assistants)
Name Post held Organisation
Section 2: Project details
2.1 Project title and timescale
Ethical approval is only valid for the time period specified on your application. Extension of
period will require further approval.
Title How healthy Diet and exercise can improve health and well-being of
children
Proposed start date:
Proposed end date:
(of data collection)
2.2 Costs and funding
Total cost: $12000
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2.3 Brief project description
Healthy eating means consuming the right quantities of food from all groups such as Children, in
order to lead a healthy life. Diet is often referred to some dietary regimen for losing weight.
However, it simply means to define that what food children eat in course of 24 hours, one week and
one month. A good diet is considered the nutritional lifestyle that is always promotes good health
condition.
The purpose of research is to identify the healthy diets of Children with a proper nutrition.
These are considered as essential which help for healthy brain development among children. This
type of research project is important for identifying the basic need or requirement for children and
then providing the better nutrition diets.
Section 3: Research Design
3.1 Research design
this research study will chose as qualitative method for gathering or collecting large information
about the topic or subject by using Questionnaires. The Sample size is 20 parents and identify their
opinion regarding own children nutrition diet plan.
3.2 Ethical implications
Respect of every participants during research analysis, giving more priority on the basis of
their task.
Reducing the misleading of important information regarding project.
3.3 Risks to research team
In this research study, it will identify the physical research if in case research participate
should gather information or data but equipment’s used in research which is not properly
worked. So as delay time and increasing risk, threat of loss.
3.4 Dissemination
Copy right intellectual property will be used by researcher to protect or secure data relevant
of own research. In order to protect confidential data so that no one can use them.
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Section 4: Participants and Recruitment
Section 4.1: Participants
I am are looking to recruit the staff members who have already working within particular
research project.
Section 4.2: Recruitment method
On the basis of ethics, it will consider the assessment test as method to recruit or hire
participant for research project. this type of recruitment method will help for identifying
previous knowledge of participate where they can easily handle complexity within current
research project.
Section 4.3: Vulnerability
In this study, participants as children and parents with lack of coordination increase
vulnerabilities. Poor relation with children of parents will be developing barriers. So as
researcher will check the current situation and applicable safeguarding policy and awareness
among parents regarding health diets.
Section 4.4: Incentives
If your project will involve offering incentives of any kind, that include incentives regarding the
financial which providing the better opportunities of participants to gain more knowledge .if
successfully done project that help to make money while giving accurate information
regarding project.
Section 4.5: Permission / Gatekeeper
Parents
Children’s
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Section 5: Consent procedure
This section will demonstrate how you will obtain informed consent from the participants.
Please include all supporting documents (eg Information Sheets, Consent forms and
questionnaires). Please answer YES, NO or NOT APPLICABLE (N/A) to each of the
following:
Yes No N/A
5.1 All respondents will be given an Information Sheet and enough
time to read it before being asked to agree to participate.
5.2 All participants taking part in an interview, focus group,
observation (or other activity which is not questionnaire-based) will
be asked to sign a consent form.
5.3 All participants completing a questionnaire will be informed on the
Information Sheet that returning the completed questionnaire
implies consent to participate.
5.4 All participants being asked to provide personal data will have the
following statement on the consent form or on the bottom of their
questionnaire “I consent to the processing of my personal
information for the purposes of this research study. I understand
that such information will be treated as strictly confidential and
handled in accordance with current UK Data Protection
legislation’’. A tick box should be included to allow participants to
give explicit consent for the collection and use of such data.
5.5 All respondents will be told that they can withdraw at any time, ask
for their interview tape to be destroyed and/or their data removed
from the project until it is no longer practical to do so (e.g. when
the report has been written up).
5.6 Where full information cannot be given prior to participation
(because it could influence outcomes) participants will be fully de-
briefed after participation.
5.7 If you answered NO to any of the above (or think more information could be useful to the
reviewer) please state why here:
Section 6: Confidentiality, Anonymity & Data and Records Management
This section will show how participants can expect confidentiality and/or anonymity and will
show how any research data collected will be managed during and after the study.
Confidential data is not disclosed to other people; Anonymous data cannot be linked to the
participant’s personal details. Confidentiality cannot always be guaranteed in the event of
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disclosure of illegal activity or unsafe practice.
Please answer YES, NO or NOT APPLICABLE (N/A) to each of the following:
Yes No N/A
6.1 Questionnaires will be returned anonymously and indirectly.
Please note that questionnaire data cannot then be followed
up/clarified.
6.2 Questionnaires and/or interview transcripts will only be identifiable
by a unique identifier (e.g. code/pseudonym)
6.3 Data will be stored securely and lists of identity number or
pseudonyms linked to names and/or addresses will be stored
securely and separately from research data
6.4 All place names and institutions which could lead to the
identification of individuals or organisations will be changed
6.5 I confirm that all processing of personal information related to the
study will be in full compliance with UK Data Protection legislation
(including the Data Protection Principles)
6.6 Consideration has been given to the limitations of confidentiality eg
disclosure of illegal behaviour or unsafe practice.
6.7 I confirm that processing of all security sensitive information will be
in full compliance with the “Oversight of security - sensitive
research material in UK universities: guidance (October 2012)”
(Universities UK, recommended by the Association of Chief Police
Officers)
6.8 If you answered NO to any of the above (or think more information could be useful to the
reviewer) please state why here:
Section 7: Authorisation
Authorisation of this application indicates satisfaction that the details are accurate,
the proposed methods are appropriate, ethical concerns have been considered and
that time and resources are available for the research to take place. The authoriser
accepts responsibility for the applicant who is undertaking the work.
For employees:
Signed: …………………………………………….
Line manager
Date ………………………….
For postgraduate researchers, postgraduate taught students and
undergraduate students:
Signed ………………………………………………
Supervisor
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Date ………………………….
If original signatures are not supplied, the applicant must forward an email from the line
manager / supervisor including the above authorisation statement.
Section 8: Checklist for Applicant
The Ethics application form
The Participant Information Sheet
The Consent Form
Letters seeking/granting permission for access to data/participants
Materials for recruitment of participants
Questionnaire
Interview schedule
Authorisation received
Risk assessment
Line manager / supervisor approval
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