PSYCH 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.3: Relative Risk, Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee
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The purpose of the irb is to review all proposed research to ensure it meets scientific and ethical standards to protect the safety and welfare of participants. Four key issues are addressed in the irb approval process: privacy, relative risks, informed consent, and access to data: privacy. Two main aspects of privacy must be considered: Confidentiality: personal, identifying information cannot be shared with others, some studies use anonymity, where researchers do not collect any such information. Pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)ts" k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge that they a(cid:396)e (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g studied: whether or not they have knowledge they are being studied obviously depends on the sorts of behavior being observed, relative risks of participation. Another ethical issue is the relative risk of participants" (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal o(cid:396) physi(cid:272)al health. In the vast majority of studies being conducted, these concerns are not an issue. The irb will evaluate the relative trade-off between risks and benefits for any research study it approves.
