HHS 460 Research Methods In Health & Human Services

Ethics in Research

Ethics plays an important role in conducting of research. While the  individual researcher is responsible for his/her ethical practice, any  research sponsored by an organization, university, or government program  has a review process guided by a code of ethics.  Besides the code of  ethics, the Institutional Review Board (IRB) plays an important role in  monitoring research.  Your task in this discussion is to examine the  origins of the IRB and analyze how the Review Board guides or monitors  research.  In your post answer the following three  questions:

• What does the IRB do to protect a research participant from harm?
• One of the reasons for the existence of the IRB has to do with  screening research applications. What is the basis for such screening?
• The IRB provides the guidelines for ethical research practice. What  would the researcher responsibilities be in terms of these guidelines?