SOC 4369 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institutional Review Board, Informed Consent, Primum Non Nocere
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A panel of persons who review research proposals with respect to ethical implications and decide whether additional actions need to be taken to assure the safety and rights of participants. Vulnerable populations require a higher level of oversight. Minorities, women, fetuses in utero, the elderly. As in every other aspect of research, the area of ethics has its own vocabulary. The principle of voluntary participation requires that people not be coerced into participating in research. Informed consent: this means that prospective research participants must be fully informed about the procedures and risks involved in research and must give their consent to participate. Two standards are applied to help protect the privacy of research participants: Participants confidentiality they are assured that identifying information will not be made available to anyone who is not directly involved in the study. Which essentially means that the participant will remain anonymous throughout the study, even to the researchers themselves.
