As chair of our IRB I have sometimes done the same thing, especially if the measures send up a red flag somehow. If the measures are reliable and valid then this is an extremely easy task. If they are not, then even in a minimum risk study you are abusing your participants if you are asking them to give up their time and energy on a useless task.
As a psychologist I find I am more mindful of such issues than my colleagues from other disciplines. Some of them--especially from the 'hard' sciences--seem clueless about tests even having reliability and validity. I don't think the IRB has gone wild at all. It is doing its job. This should be easily accomplished and easily remedied. If that was the only thing problematic with the proposal I would have marked it as 'approved pending modifications" then usually within a day of getting the requested information would have gotten back to the researcher and told them it was approved. At least at our school it is not a big hassle. Over the years of doing such things I find most researchers end up grateful for the heads-up on a problem with their studies--it boils down to "it's not what you say but how you say it". Annette Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Our relatively new IRB has sent back a proposal from a colleague. The IRB > refuses to evaluate the proposal without the author addressing issues of > RELIABILITY and VALIDITY of measures. I find this to be a bit scary. > While I > feel that the IRB is properly charged with evaluating the risk to > participants > using a given method, I do not feel that the IRB has any place evaluating the > > appropriateness of the method beyond the evaluation of risk...especially in > cases with minimum risk. My contention is that the reliabilty and validity > of > measures should be outside the perview of the IRB unless risk levels exceed > minimum and a cost/benefit decision must be discussed. > > Thoughts? Can anyone help me out here? > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Department of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
