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The current system of regulating community-based participatory research (CBPR) doesn't truly engage or protect communities as it should and fails to follow up on promises made by researchers to IRBs and to those whom they study, says one community researcher.
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Three institutions recently were honored by the Health Improvement Institute for their contributions to enhancing the protection of research subjects.
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Tufts University researchers studying immigrant workers in a nearby community engaged local leaders and teens to help them create a survey and recruit and translate for the immigrant population. It was an example of community-based participatory research (CBPR), involving the community from start to finish.
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While federal regulations require that subjects be informed of the possible alternatives to their participation in a clinical trial, often subjects don't learn enough about those alternatives to make an informed decision, says a bioethicist who has studied the issue.
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Researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, have developed a novel approach to assessing the potential social risks to participants in a research study before the study commences.
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When researchers want to survey underage students in school settings, it's obviously necessary to get permission from the children's parents. But exactly how that permission is best obtained has been a matter of debate.
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While passive consent may not be the preferred way of obtaining parental permission to survey underage students, researchers say there will continue to be some situations in which it's the best and perhaps only practical choice.
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Large compensation to subjects for their participation in a study is considered a red flag by many IRBs, who worry that it could provide undue inducement to join a study without considering its risks.
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In this question-and-answer session, Mark Schreiner, MD, chair of the Committees for the Protection of Human Subjects (IRB) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an associate professor of anesthesia in pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, discusses the issue of informed consent in cluster-randomized clinical trials.
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Nationwide, research institutions are cutting costs in response to the economic downturn. Funding for education and training has been one area hit fairly hard, and this made it a challenge for IRB offices to meet their educational demands.
