Research Extenders & Research Integrity: A New Frontier

研究扩展

基本信息

批准号：
7125507
负责人：
LESLIE B ALEXANDER
金额：
$ 19.59万
依托单位：
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2005
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2005-09-22 至 2008-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Interest is increasing in street-level research personnel, whom we call "research extenders" (REs), employed by researchers because they share characteristics (geographic, ethnic, and/or personal experience with the focal research problem) with the targeted research population, and thus can be effective, or even essential in recruiting and developing rapport with research subjects. However, these similarities may also raise issues in human subjects protections, including social risk for research participants, difficulty in maintaining confidentiality, and challenges to appropriate boundaries in research relationships, which may compromise the validity of the data. Using primarily qualitative methods (in-depth interviews,,scenarios, focus groups), the goal of this study is to generate knowledge about the understandings of this understudied segment of the research community related to the responsible conduct of research, leading to more targeted and nuanced training approaches for them, and in turn, enhancing research integrity and promoting collection of valid data in vulnerable populations. AIM 1) Using in-depth interviews with 2 types of REs: those who only perform research activities (single role REs) and those who combine research activities with service provision (dual role REs), we examine how both types of REs understand and approach responsible conduct of research. H1a: REs will identify and discuss ethical conduct in ways that differ from the standard framework, provided by guidance documents such as the Belmont Report. H1b: Dual role REs will identify and discuss some ethical conflicts that are not identified and discussed by single role REs. AIM 2: To discover factors, identified by both types of REs and their supervisors as facilitating or impeding the ethical conduct of research. Separate focus groups, conducted with single role REs, dual role REs, and their supervisors, will explore effectiveness of existing formal and informal training, difficult encounters for REs and supervisors to manage; and supervisor confidence about data validity and strategies used if validity is questioned.

描述（由申请人提供）：人们对街头研究人员的兴趣正在增加，我们称之为“研究扩展者”（RE），研究人员雇用他们是因为他们具有共同的特征（地理、种族和/或针对焦点研究问题的个人经验））与目标研究人群，因此对于招募和发展与研究对象的融洽关系可能是有效的，甚至是必不可少的。然而，这些相似之处也可能引发人类受试者保护方面的问题，包括研究参与者的社会风险、保密困难以及对研究关系中适当界限的挑战，这可能会损害数据的有效性。本研究主要使用定性方法（深入访谈、情景、焦点小组），旨在了解研究界中这一未受研究的群体对负责任的研究行为的理解，从而产生更有针对性和更有效的研究结果。为他们提供细致入微的培训方法，进而提高研究的完整性并促进弱势群体有效数据的收集。目标 1) 通过对两种类型的 RE 进行深入访谈：仅进行研究活动的 RE（单一角色 RE）和将研究活动与服务提供相结合的 RE（双角色 RE），我们研究这两种类型的 RE 如何理解和处理负责任地进行研究。 H1a：RE 将以不同于贝尔蒙特报告等指导文件提供的标准框架的方式识别和讨论道德行为。 H1b：双重角色 RE 将识别和讨论一些单角色 RE 未识别和讨论的道德冲突。目标 2：发现两类 RE 及其主管认为促进或阻碍研究道德行为的因素。由单角色 RE、双重角色 RE 及其主管进行的单独焦点小组将探讨现有正式和非正式培训的有效性、RE 和主管需要管理的困难遭遇；以及主管对数据有效性的信心以及在有效性受到质疑时所使用的策略。