Re: Informed Consent

["Sally Martin, Ph.D., CFLE" <smartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is the typical approach used here.  But, it does necessitate having a
code number associated with the data.  In very sensitive situations,
alternatives, such as the one I suggested earlier, have been used.  I'll be
interested in what others have to say.

Sally Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: Little, Christina <Little.Christina@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:45 AM
Subject: RE: Informed Consent


> In my experience, consent forms or any other document that has the
subjects'
> name or identifying information on it, are always kept separate from the
> other data so that they cannot be matched. One person, such as the primary
> investigator or study coordinator keeps a confidential list with the
matched
> information in a separate place from either consents or the data.  I'd be
> interested to know if anyone does anything different.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Kokish [mailto:dka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:04 AM
> To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
> Subject: RE: Informed Consent
>
>
> Thank you for your reply. My question may have been unclear. I'm inquiring
> about informed consent for research using an anonymous questionnaire ABOUT
> polygraph examinations, not informed consent for polygraph examinations
> themselves. I'm doing this research because polygraph use is becoming
> increasingly common in sex offender management and treatment  and, as you
> said, "reliability, as regards interpretation, . . .is highly
questionable."
> I'm hoping to shed a bit of light on this very question.
>
>
> . . .>>I plan to have them (the participants) submit their questionnaires
> anonymously. This means that, while I will have them complete informed
> consent forms, I will be unable to tie the consent form to a particular
> questionnaire. Is this acceptable? If not, how does one resolve the
> anonymity problem?<<
>
> In other words, since an anonymous questionnaire can't, by design, be tied
> to a name, the consent forms have to be kept separated from the research
> instrument. How then, does one assure ethics committees that each
> participant did in fact sign a consent form. I'm sure there's a simple
> approach to this, but being a research novice, I'm unaware of it.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A. Fraga, Psy.D., DABFE [mailto:MichaelSan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:43 AM
> To: dka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Informed Consent
>
>
> A similar use of the polygraph (with so's) has been used in Sonoma County.
> As the measure is not admissible in a court of law, and has as yet to be
> proven to accomplish what it purports to do with any statistical degree of
> inter-rater (in this case operator) reliability, as regards
interpretation,
> its use is highly questionable clinically except as a coercive aspect of
> supervision which is the manner currently being employed here. As for the
> root question, 'standardized' questionnaires, both written, and the
verbally
> delivered format utilize the administration of the polygraph; structure as
> in content would seem to be the issue, questions would best be served if
> they were generic to either the offense category, or the aspects of
> supervision in the code.
>
>
> Michael A. Fraga, Psy.D.
> Ananda Institute
> Family Trauma Research and Treatment
> Santa Rosa, CA
>