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Inform Consent Draft
• Purpose of the research:
Primary purpose of the study it to determine whether child abuse rates can be decreased through intervention programs with mothers being treated for substance abuse. It is conducted by the principle investigator Dr. Johns.
• Procedures involved in the research:
The criteria to use to determine the risk would be Parenting Stress Index and a test of knowledge of child development. Using the plan, after determination, those who are at risk would then be randomized to receive either to receive social work visits alone or the experimental intervention involving counseling, a brief education program on child development, and regular social work visits.
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Special protection of their confidentially should maintain throughout the study.
2. If participant is pregnant women, according to 45 CFR 46 subpart B provides additional protections for research involving pregnant women. The regulation states that pregnant women may be involved in the research if any risk is the least possible for achieving the objectives of the research. So consent should obtain from the Pregnant women about the o Deception study:
If she uses deception in the study, than informed consent would be not same as above. Study including deception should include below statement in the informed consent form:
“Some details of this project may not be made known to me until my session is completed. I realize at the completion of the session that I have the option of withholding the responses I have provided from subsequent analysis.”
After completion of the research it is mandatory to provide debrief to the participant about the actual reason for the research.
 Authorization statement:
• I have read each page of paper about the study
• I know that being in this study is voluntary and I choose to be in this study. I know I can stop being in this study without any …show more content…
The deception mainly affect the subject’s ability to give informed consent. Ethical problems and concerns increased whenever the protection of the informed consent is compromised.
But in psychological and behavioral study deception is perhaps necessary because humans act differently depending on the circumstance and subject full understanding with the study can be bias for the study.
Some studies shows that that subjects who have participated in deception experiments versus non deception experiments enjoyed the experience more, received more educational benefit from it, and did not mind being deceived or having their privacy invaded.
In this case, the study is involving the substance abuse women whose treatment is going on and purpose of the study is give them intervention therapy so it will reduce the risk of abuse among their child.
I think, here withholding primary purpose of the study would not harmful to the participant, it would be beneficial to them without any stigma of their “child abuse “study.
They can take part freely in the study without any