Assessing Risk - SBE

Risk of harm in social and behavioral sciences generally fall in three categories, which are:

Invasion of privacy, breach of confidentiality, and study procedures

What statement about risks in social and behavioral sciences research is most accurate:

Risks are specific to time, situation, and culture.

Identify the example of when situation and time are key to assessing risk of harm in a research study:

Asking women if they have had an abortion

A researcher wishes to study generational differences in coping mechanisms among adults who experienced abuse as children. Adequate measures will be instituted to obtain informed consent and ensure that there is no breach of confidentiality. The most likely additional risk is that some subjects may:

Experience emotional or psychological distress.

If disclosure of a subject's involvement in a specific research study can be potentially harmful to the subject, and the consent form is the only record linking the subject to the research, which of the following would be most helpful:

Obtain a waiver of documentation of informed consent.