Understanding Potential Risks for Human Subjects Research

All researchers are required to properly identify, minimize, and disclose any potential harm or discomforts that may come to participants.

Examples of Potential Risks to Subjects - Research and Innovation

Physical risks include physical discomfort, pain, injury, illness or disease brought about by the methods and procedures of the research. A physical risk may ...

Risks associated with human subjects research - UMBC Research

Physical risks include physical discomfort, pain,or injury resulting from a method or procedure in a research study. · Psychological risks · Social risks ...

G. Potential Research Risks or Discomforts to Participants

Describe any reasonably foreseeable risks of harm or discomforts for individuals and/or groups that may result from participation in the research.

Understanding Risk in Research - Vice President for Research

Assessing risk in a research study is one of the primary responsibilities of an IRB and one of its most controversial tasks. By nature, studying human ...

Evaluating Risks to Participants | Research A to Z

In human research studies, the IRBs are responsible for evaluating the risks, weighing the probability of each risk coming to pass, ...

Risks and Benefits of Research - UC Davis IRB

The IRB is responsible for evaluating the potential risks and weighing the probability of the risk occurring and the magnitude of harm that may result.

Review of Human Subjects Research Risk | 2023 | IRB Blog

A risk is a potential harm (injury) associated with the research that a reasonable person would be likely to consider possible or significant.

Determining Minimal Risk in Social and Behavioral Research - NCBI

The only definition of risk in the human subjects protection regulations is for minimal risk (45 C.F.R. § 46.102(i)). Over the past 30 years, this definition ...

Guidance on Assessing and Minimizing Risk in Human Research

... study - for example their health status, age, and ability to understand what is involved in the research - as well as potential benefits to participants ...

Conducting Risk-Benefit Assessments and Determining Level of IRB ...

Investigators should understand the concept of minimizing risk when designing research and conduct a risk-benefit assessment to determine the level of IRB ...

Research Using Human Subjects | NIAID

Show peer reviewers how you will protect subjects from research risk. Leave no questions about what you propose to do. Clearly state how you ...

Potential Risks and Discomforts - UNK

The concept of risk includes discomfort, burden, or inconvenience a subject may experience as a result of the research procedures.

351. Research Risks - University of Nevada, Reno

Research Risk Defined ... Risks to participants should be reasonable in relation to potential benefits, if any, to participants, and the importance of the ...

Reviewing Research | Human Subjects Research Office | RIT

Risk/Benefit Analysis ... The risks to research subjects posed by participation in research should be justified by the anticipated benefits to the subjects or ...

Assessing Risks and Benefits - UCI Office of Research

It must then judge whether the anticipated benefit, either of new knowledge or of improved health for the research subjects, justifies inviting any person to ...

IRB SOP 507 Risks to Research Subjects

the risk of harm to participants in human research and what procedures should be implemented in order to minimize risk. Scope. This Standard Operating ...

Protecting Human Research Participants - Davidson College

The purpose of the study · Foreseeable risks/discomforts to the individual · Potential benefits to the individual or others · Confidentiality protections for the ...

Reducing Risk - Vice President for Research

Reducing Risk · Consent. The participant is often the best judge as to what is an acceptable amount of risk (though there are participants where this is not the ...

Read the Belmont Report | HHS.gov

Previous codes and Federal regulations have required that risks to subjects be outweighed by the sum of both the anticipated benefit to the ...