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Hello Everyone!
I am a new member of INSNA, new to the listserv, and new to SNA (took a
class from Ron Breiger last year). I would be willing to facilitate such a
working meeting at Sunbelt, as far as the IRB content goes, if someone else
could help get space, time, etc.
I have been an IRB member for two years and have also been a regulatory
officer for a large federal grant, though biomedical. I have experience
writing SOPs and policies as well.
I have just begun a post-doc, and my mentor will probably kill me for
volunteering to do this, except that it is so relevant to my project, and I
think there might be a publication in this.
So, if you-all will have me, I am volunteering!
Naja McKenzie PhD, RN
University of Arizona
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Maybe someone (not me!) could organize a working meeting on this at the
Sunbelt? It has been an issue for some years now.
>>> "Borgatti, Steve" <[log in to unmask]> 9/14/2007 11:50 AM >>>
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Two notes on this:
1. I think it would helpful if INSNA would draft and post a set of
guidelines for handling human subjects in network research. Proposal
writers could then indicate that their studies are in compliance with
the standard, and this might make IRBs feel more comfortable with
network research. No, I am NOT volunteering.
2. In the meantime, there was a special issue of Social Networks (vol
27; 2005) put together by Ron Breiger that discusses some of these
issues. The ideas discussed in those issues might be useful in
convincing an IRB, and citing published work on the matter might have a
similar effect as item 1 above.
Steve.
Steve Borgatti
Chellgren Endowed Chair, Dept of Management
Gatton School of Business and Economics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506 USA
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> From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On
> Behalf Of Scott E. Clair
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:08 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [SOCNET] IRB problems
>
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>
> First place I would recommend you look is in this article -
>
> Klovdahl, A. (2005). Social network research and human subjects
> protection: Towards more effective infectious disease control.
Social
> Networks, 27, 119-137.
>
> From my own experience while every IRB will be a bit different - when
I
> specifically inquired at a statewide conference on IRB challenges
about
> the issue of using names in social network analysis the general
> principles for IRBs they laid out were ...
>
> 1) Do No Harm
> 2) Justice
> 3) Risks - minimal risk balanced against the benefits.
> 4) Respect - for participants
>
> In the context of using names for social network studies they
> suggested
>
> 1) Create Codes for Unique Names AFTER ALL of the data are collected
-
> this allows for linking macronetworks over time.
> 2) Point out that the research would be impractical to do any other
> way.
> For example, what if as a joke someone in your network lists George
W.
> Bush or for that matter just a family member that lives in another
> state - clearly tracking down all of the alters is not a practical
> option.
> 3) Having a detailed Data Management Plan to minimize any potential
> breach of confidentiality.
>
> Short version was as long as you can show a firm grasp of the
> potential issues and have outlined a plan to minimize the possible
> risks
> to the participants that was sufficient (again at least for this
IRB).
>
> Hope this helps.
> -scott
>
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> Behalf Of Tom Valente
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:49 PM
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> Subject: Re: IRB problems
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>
> Steve:
>
> One thing I told my IRB early on in response to this issue was that
we
> often ask adolescents if their parents smoke and if their siblings
> smoke, but we don't require parents and siblings to be consented.
So
> there is a precedent for respondents providing data on alters
without
> them being consented. (They did say however, that we could not ask
> respondents to indicate if their named peers smoked since smoking is
> illegal and we would be obligated to report on illegal behavior. We
> could, however, ask if they thought each friend "approved of"
smoking.)
>
> The second thing we emphasized is that confidentiality and anonymity
> are
>
> 2 different things. We can conduct research that is confidential
> without being anonymous. As long as we protect confidentiality then
> anonymity is less important. Then we had to convince them we would
> convert names to numbers and then discard the names in a safe way.
>
> -Tom
>
> Steven Corman wrote:
>
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> >
> >Has anyone made further headway on how to deal with IRB demands
that
> >people named in network questionnaires be considered consenting
> >subjects? A student just submitted a proposal and got this reply
from
> >our IRB:
> >
> >
> >
> >"There are spaces in the survey that ask respondents to list the
names
> >of people they know or who influence them. Please add the text
> 'Please
> >do not identify any individual by name-use a fake name or title for
> that
> >person instead' to each place this occurs. If other people are
> >identified within the survey then they would qualify as subjects
also
> >and would have to consent to data about them being used."
> >
> >
> >
> >As discussed at a Sunbelt a couple of years back, this makes
network
> >research impractical to impossible. If I am going to fight them I
> could
> >use some ammunition.
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks...
> >
> >
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
> >
> >_____________________________________________
> >
> >Steven R. (Steve) Corman
> >
> >Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
> >
> >Arizona State University
> >
> >http://www.public.asu.edu/~corman/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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