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To provide updated ethical guidelines and legal frameworks governing human participant and animal research within sport and exercise science.

Standards for Ethics in Sport and Exercise Science Research: 2018 Update

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This editorial provides the 2018 update on ethical standards for research published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine.

To provide updated ethical guidelines and legal frameworks governing human participant and animal research within sport and exercise science.
Synthesized international legal regulations, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates, and contemporary methodological standards.
Reviewed critical ethical domains including participant consent, data governance, deceptive methodology, and experimental reproducibility.
Established clarified protocols for informed consent and assent in vulnerable cohorts, individuals lacking capacity, and contracted athletes.
Defined compliance criteria for data protection, secondary retrospective analyses, open-access repository storage, and prospective trial registration.
Updated practical requirements regarding placebo controls, participant deception, sample size justification for study reproducibility, and adverse event reporting.

Harriss et al. (2017) studied this question.

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