An HIV prevention protocol reviewed at 15 national sites: how do ethics committees protect communities?
To learn whether ethics committees reviewing community-based participatory research concentrate on the protection of communities, in addition to individual participants, data from 15 sites were analyzed. Eighty-two ethics committee concerns related to consent (35%), protocol procedures (49%), data collection (17%), and HIPAA (6%) were identified. Concerns generally involved individual level subject issues; only 17% were related to community issues. To improve community-level protections in research, the authors recommend that both ethics committee members and research staff receive education concerning protection and respect for communities, that a community member group be established to advise researchers throughout the planning and implementation of community-level studies and that local ethics committee boards include members with community-level experience.
Deeds
Bethany Griffin
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University of Maryland Medical School.
Castillo
Marné
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Beason
Zephyr
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Cunningham
Shayna D
SD
Ellen
Jonathan M
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Peralta
Ligia
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