Populations in Research Requiring Additional Considerations and/or Protections

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The NBAC looks at characteristics individuals might have that would prevent them from being able to provide voluntary informed consent. The traits may be thought of as falling into six broad areas: cognitive or communicative, institutional, deferential, medical, economic, and social. Prospective research subjects who are not able to comprehend information, deliberate, and make decisions about participation in a proposed research study have a:

Cognitive or communicative vulnerability

A subject participates in a drug study because treatment is available at no or reduced cost, and he could not otherwise afford it. This is an example of:

Economic vulnerability

Which is true of inducements in research?

Inducements constitute an "undue influence" if they alter a potential subject's decision-making processes, such that they do not appropriately weigh the risk-benefit relationship of the research.

Identify the following groups that are protected in the federal regulations (45 CFR 46), specifically in Subparts B, C, and D with additional protections:

Pregnant women, prisoners, children

In considering NBAC's analytic approach, an otherwise competent person who is acutely ill might be considered at especially high risk of harm for:

Situational cognitive vulnerability

Subjects with a serious illness may be at risk for exploitation because they may be desperate for a possible cure. This is an example of:

medical vulnerability


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