Question

A researcher conducts a focus group to learn about attitudes towards hygiene and disease prevention. two weeks after the focus group, the researcher learns one of the subjects had a heart attack at home and was hospitalized, but made a full recovery. based on dhs regulations, the researcher report this event to the irb?

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: No, this does not need to be reported since it is unrelated to participation in the study.

Unless a person is induced with chemical substance, The cause of heart attack is most likely diet and lifestyle that has been building up over time.

Since the research is revolved around attitudes towards hygiene and disease prevention, they would only observe the subject's behaviour, not making them digesting any substance.

Answer 2

The answer is no. The event does not need to be reported to the IRB because it is unrelated to the participation in the study.

 

EXPLANATION

IRB stands for Institutional Review Board. IRB is also known as a committee that applies ethics in researches by reviewing the method of the research to ensure that they are ethical. IRB was formed in order to monitor, review, and at the end approve the method that is used for research. They usually focus on researches that involve humans. IRB also conducts several forms of risk-benefit analysis. This is for the purpose of deciding whether research should be conducted or not.

 

The purpose of IRB is to make sure that appropriate ways are taken to guide the rights of the humans that are participating as a subject in a study or research. Many countries have also started to establish national, regional, or local review boards. The main purpose of these kinds of boards is to monitor researches to follow ethical rules, norms, regulations, and also codes.

 

If one subject of the research had a heart attack at home and was hospitalized, the researcher did not need to report this event because it was a disease that has built up over time, except if the heart attack was caused by the chemical substances that the subject has consumed. Since it was research about hygiene and disease prevention, then there are no chemical substances involved.

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KEYWORD: IRB, research, regulations  

Subject: Social studies

Class: 10-12

Subchapter: IRB