Improving Ethics in Research Development of the Coercion Assessment Scale (CAS)

提高强制评估量表 (CAS) 研究开发的道德规范

基本信息

批准号：
8212102
负责人：
KAREN LEGGETT DUGOSH
金额：
$ 31.28万
依托单位：
TREATMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2010-01-15 至 2013-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8212102
关键词：
Admission activity Adoption Adult Area Client Clinical Coercion Commit Consent Consultations Controlled Study Coupled Crime Criminal Justice Development Device or Instrument Development Drug Courts Ensure Ethics Evaluation Focus Groups Human Imprisonment Individual Institutional Review Boards Intervention Lead Measures Participant Patients Perception Phase Population Prevalence Prisons Procedures Property Protocols documentation Psychometrics Punishment Randomized Research Scientist Source Staging Structure Substance Use Disorder Substance abuse problem Surveys System Testing Vulnerable Populations adjudicate cognitive function court experience human subject protection improved instrument meetings offender parolee pressure probationer programs psychopharmacologic public health relevance research and development research study response substance abuser

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The wide-spread development and adoption of promising interventions for substance abusing criminal justice clients (e.g., diversionary programs and psychopharmacological treatments) has led to a proliferation of controlled studies to establish their efficacy. The expansion of this type of research raises concerns about whether we can ensure autonomy and minimize perceptions of coercion to participate in research within this doubly vulnerable population. Despite numerous institutional and federal requirements aimed at ensuring the autonomy of vulnerable research participants, the field lacks a reliable and valid way of measuring perceived coercion to participate in research. In response to this need, we developed and have begun to evaluate the Coercion Assessment Scale (CAS), an instrument that focuses specifically on coercive pressures that may be experienced by substance abusing offenders asked to participate in research. Preliminary findings from three prior studies have revealed promising levels of internal consistency and convergent and discriminant validity. The proposed study seeks to further develop the CAS as a comprehensive, reliable, and valid instrument for measuring coercion to participate in research among substance abusing offender populations. The study will proceed in three phases. Phase 1 involves conducting focus groups with clients and professionals to develop a larger item pool that more fully captures the construct of research coercion. Phase 2 involves a protocol analysis of the beta instrument to ensure that items are correctly understood by participants and to improve their wording. Phase 3 involves establishing the psychometric properties of the finalized instrument including item response properties, test-retest reliability, internal consistency, factor structure, convergent validity, and discriminant validity. Development of the CAS responds to the need for an instrument to accurately measure perceptions of coercion among substance abusing criminal justice clients participating in research. Much like consent quizzes and tests of cognitive functioning, the CAS will be useful for identifying individuals who may not be appropriate for research participation because of their level of perceived coercion. In this context, the CAS may be particularly useful to research staff, research intermediaries, and IRBs. In a more academic context, the CAS will provide a reliable and valid way to measure changes in perceived coercion in the development of new strategies for improving consent and recruitment procedures and reducing potential harms to human research participants. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Development of the Coercion Assessment Scale (CAS) responds to the need for an instrument to accurately measure perceptions of coercion among substance abusing criminal justice clients participating in research. Much like consent quizzes and tests of cognitive functioning, the CAS will be useful for identifying individuals who are not appropriate for research participation because of their level of perceived coercion. In this context, the CAS may be particularly useful to research staff, research intermediaries, and ethics review boards.

描述（由申请人提供）：针对药物滥用刑事司法客户的有希望的干预措施（例如转移计划和精神药理学治疗）的广泛开发和采用导致了大量对照研究以确定其功效。此类研究的扩展引起了人们的担忧，即我们是否能够确保自主性并最大限度地减少对这一双重弱势群体参与研究的强迫感。尽管有许多机构和联邦要求旨在确保弱势研究参与者的自主权，但该领域缺乏可靠且有效的方法来衡量参与研究的感知强迫。为了满足这一需求，我们开发并开始评估强制评估量表（CAS），该工具专门关注被要求参与研究的药物滥用罪犯可能经历的强制压力。先前三项研究的初步结果显示了内部一致性以及收敛和判别效度的良好水平。拟议的研究旨在进一步将 CAS 发展为一种全面、可靠且有效的工具，用于衡量强迫药物滥用罪犯群体参与研究的情况。该研究将分三个阶段进行。第一阶段涉及与客户和专业人士进行焦点小组讨论，以开发一个更大的项目库，更全面地捕捉研究强制的结构。第二阶段涉及测试工具的协议分析，以确保参与者正确理解项目并改进其措辞。第三阶段涉及建立最终工具的心理测量属性，包括项目响应属性、重测可靠性、内部一致性、因子结构、收敛效度和判别效度。 CAS 的开发满足了对一种工具的需求，该工具可以准确衡量参与研究的药物滥用刑事司法客户对胁迫的看法。与同意测验和认知功能测试非常相似，CAS 将有助于识别由于感知强制程度而可能不适合参与研究的个人。在这种情况下，CAS 对于研究人员、研究中介机构和 IRB 可能特别有用。在更学术的背景下，CAS 将提供一种可靠且有效的方法来衡量感知胁迫的变化，以制定新的策略来改进同意和招募程序并减少对人类研究参与者的潜在伤害。公共健康相关性：胁迫评估量表 (CAS) 的开发满足了对一种工具的需求，该工具可以准确测量参与研究的药物滥用刑事司法客户对胁迫的看法。与同意测验和认知功能测试非常相似，CAS 将有助于识别因感知强制程度而不适合参与研究的个人。在这种情况下，CAS 可能对研究人员、研究中介机构和伦理审查委员会特别有用。