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October 2, 2025Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

Ethics Compliance in Sub-Saharan African Higher Education Research (ECiSHER) Involving Human Participants: A Systematic Review of a Decade of Literature

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PDProsper Dzifa DzamesiDMDickson Okoree MirekuBBBrandford Bervell

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Overview

Systematic review shows ethics compliance challenges in human-participant research in Africa, highlighting the need for stronger guidelines.

Key Points

  • The study reveals that ethics compliance faces significant challenges in human participation within higher education research.
  • Over half of the reviewed studies (32) used qualitative methods to analyze the landscape of ethical research practices.
  • Inconsistent application of ethical guidelines emerged as the dominant challenge, affecting 96.5% of studies reviewed.
  • Recommendations include enhancing institutional ethics policies and digitalizing ethics review processes for better governance.

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Dzamesi et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de6f3183cbc991d0a221fehttps://doi.org/10.1177/15562646251383091
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