Thank you all for your responses about the research ethics questions. I have pasted
them together and forwarded them to my colleague for consideration. Interestingly, a
student from another department came to me and said, You don't know me, but I'm doing
some research for a class and would
HI
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (posting for a
colleague):
Earlier today I received an envelope in my mailbox containing a number of
blank surveys and a cover letter requesting my participation in the research
project. The researcher is a undergraduate student in an
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jim Clark, responding to Rod Hetzel's
ethics question, wrote:
If the name of the researcher being withheld was part of the
ethics approval, then I would NOT second-guess the review
committee.
If I understand Jim correctly, he's saying that if the ethics
review committee
Being agreeable today, I also agree with Helen Harton, who
pointed out that there should nevertheless be information of some
kind about whom to contact about the research. This needn't be
the bashful student experimenter, but there should be someone
identifiable as responsible for
Title: Re: research ethics questions
Annette Taylor commented
However, by federal guidelines there MUST BE TWO contact people listed
on any
consent/instructions and a copy of that information must be made
available to
each participant in writing! I didn't make up that rule, it's a
federal rule
Thanks Annette. I was not aware that this was in the on-line training
module. It certainly is not in the published regs. I wonder if the
folks who developed the training models were familiar with the regs.
or took some liberties in their interpretation of them. Regardless,
it seems silly. If
Greetings:
I just got an email from a colleague asking for my guidance in a potentially
unethical situation in his department involving research and informed
consent. I told him that I would like to submit this question to TIPS and he
gave me permission to do so. Please respond to me on
The Federal Regs say (see
http://www.med.umich.edu/irbmed/FederalDocuments/hhs/HHS45CF
R46.html), section 46.116
1. Basic elements of informed consent. Except as provided in
paragraph (c) or (d) of this section, in seeking informed consent,
the following information shall be provided to each
