Kinesiology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Informed Consent

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2032A/B
• Professor: Lindsay Nagamatsu

Document Summary

Basics of ethical research: who, when, why. Who: who is the research participant, any living individual about whom a researcher obtains, data through intervention or interaction with the individual. Identifiable private information: may no require a full ethics review for, unidentifiable physical traces collected through routine treatment, expedited review the norm in such cases. Why: why is it important to protect human participants, promote safety and well-being of human participants, adhere to the ethical values and principles of underlying research, allay concerns by general public about responsible research. Study is approved by irb and conducted according to the protocol. Informed consent is properly obtained: participants meet selection and eligibility requirements, protocol changes and adverse events are reported, rights and welfare of participants monitored throughout, all members of research team are qualified. Individuals with questionable capacity to consent: children, prisoners, terminally ill. If they feel free to decline: why they are volunteering, coercion rare given the vigilance of institutional review boards.