CITI: Assessing Risk - SBE

The primary purpose of a Certificate of Confidentiality is to:

Protect identifiable research information from compelled disclosure.

Additional safeguards that may be included in a social and behavioral study may include:

Remove all direct identifiers from the data as soon as possible.

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

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

Invasion of privacy, breach of confidentiality, and study procedures