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Research Methods I Prof K Homework #1 This homework will sensitize you to IRB concerns by considering specific research hypotheses with regard to issues around the safety of participants, informed consent, risk to participants, and confidentiality . Please address each of these concerns as you consider the following research designs: 1. Children who exercise regularly achieve more in school than children who don’t exercise regularly.  Consider the following –  Participant safety: Participant safety could be addressed by ensuring the children are playing in safe conditions, with appropriate equipment at school and a supervisor present to intervene in case of any conflict or injury.  Informed consent: For informed consent, the children should inform the researchers that they want to study how their exercise behavior would affect their academic performance. The researchers will also need to inform and receive consent from the parents because the children are under-age and cannot yet vouch for themselves.  Risk to participants: The risk to participants in this case would be minimal since it is their normal exercise and academic behavior at school being observed, the school should already be a safe environment for the children.  Confidentiality: Confidentiality can be maintained by assigning numbers to children once their baselines exercise levels have been measured to not associate a child's identity with their academic scores. The scores will be kept privately between the researchers, teachers, parents, and child. 2. College students whose parents are divorced declare a major later in their college careers than those whose parents are not divorced.  Consider the following –  Participant safety: Participant safety would involve emotional safety in terms of approaching the sensitive topic with care, ensuring the participants are comfortable with answering the question and following the research.  Informed consent: Participants should be told that the study is looking to measure the impact of having divorced parents on their college experience, particularly the declaration of their major. Since they are

Research Methods I Prof K (presumably) over the age of 18 a parent’s consent is not needed.  Risk to participants: There is no health risk to participants, and the emotional risk can be mitigated through safety measures, but participants must be informed that they may experience unpleasant emotions answering about their parent's divorce.  Confidentiality: Confidentiality must be ensured, one way to do so is removing names and identifying information about the participants and assigning codes. Everyone’s information will be kept private and unshared, only the data should be made public.  3. When someone else is also in a public bathroom, people are more likely to wash their hands than when they are alone.  Consider the following –  Participant safety: For participant safety you will have to inform the participants that they're going to be put in a potentially uncomfortable situation, and that the environment will have to be secluded and safe from outside factors so the researchers can obtain valid data.  Informed consent: Participants will have to be informed that they will be potentially put in uncomfortable situation, and that but they're being tested on something else besides if they wash their hands when someone else is in the bathroom. Only adults should participate in this study for obvious reasons, so you’ll only need to receive consent from the participants and the control factor. After the experiment is done the researchers will have to inform the participants being monitored.  Risk to participants: There isn't a super high risk to patients besides being in a potentially uncomfortable situation. The researchers will have to make sure the bathroom is closed off and secluded to anybody else so that the data can be gathered efficiently and effectively.  Confidentiality: all personal and individualistic information about the participants should be kept anonymous, and only the data should be shared. 4. Obese adults who ride bikes six days a week for a half hour lose more weight than those who ride three times a week for an hour.  Consider the following –  Participant safety: for participants safety will have to create an environment that is safe for adults to ride their bike.

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