Fran,
FYI - This may be of interest.
Bonnie

At 10:21 AM 2/12/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>Date:     02/12/98 05:59 PM
>To:       "MCW Institutional Review Board Forum" <xxxxxx@post.its.mcw.edu>
>          AT UNLV
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>Subject:  Re[2]: College Students as Human Subjects
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>Subject: Re[2]: College Students as Human Subjects
>Author:  xxxxxx@CCMAIL.lbl.gov at UNLV
>Date:    2/12/98 5:59 PM
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>     We share an IRB with the University of California at Berkeley.
>     Our IRB policy is quite explicit:  if  UCB or LBNL students or
>     staff are specifically identified as a recruitment pool, it
>     must come through our IRB. (I.e., if the researchers advertise
>     on campus or in the Daily Cal, they must have an IRB review; if
>     they advertise for young men between 18 and 25 in the San
>     Francisco Chronicle they would not ordinarily be subject to
>     review.)
>     A Student Health Services physician is always a member of the
>     IRB, and is usually assigned as primary reviewer in studies
>     involving students.
>     A few years back a group of students were victims in a
>     well-publicized incident.  More than one off-campus researcher
>     immediately (and I do mean they flew in within hours) attempted
>     to initiate post-traumatic stress studies.  Because the IRB
>     found this to be a vulnerable population, did not find an
>     acceptable risk:benefit ratio for the students, and questioned
>     the method of recruitment, the study(ies) were not approved.
>     In specific answer to your questions:
>     1) The researcher must have IRB approval.  Approval of the Dean
>     of Students may also be required in some cases.  (For example,
>     if the IRB had approved the study described above, contacting
>     the students would have had to have been arranged through the
>     Dean)
>     2) The IRB uses the same criteria for reviewing these studies
>     as any other.
>     3) See above.
>     4) Only to the extent that minimal risk/non-minimal risk is
>     always handled differently.
>     5) Whether your IRB reviews the study or not, my guess would be
>     that the institution would be 'liable' in the same way should
>     something go wrong.
>     6) Parental notification is handled on a protocol by protocol
>     basis, just as for any other research.
>     As an aside, the IRB is currently considering the implications
>     of internet chat room research and our student body. Good luck
>     hashing out your own policy.
>     Chris Byrne
>     IRB/IACUC Coordinator
>     Berkeley Lab
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>Subject: Re: College Students as Human Subjects
>Author:  xxxxxx@post.its.mcw.edu at SMTPLINK-WKSG
>Date:    2/12/98 8:10 AM
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>     Barbara,
>     I'm going to forward your email to the MCWIRB Discussion List for
>     their input also.  To subscribe to that list send the following
>     message in the body (nothing in the subject line):
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>     to:  xxxxxx@its.mcw.edu
>     It's a great discussion group on any area of protection of human
>     subjects and very, very helpful.
>     Marsha Green
>     UNLV
>     xxxxxx@ccmail.nevada.edu
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>Subject: College Students as Human Subjects
>Author:  Research Administration Discussion Group
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>at UNLV
>Date:    2/12/98 12:02 AM
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>We periodically have requests from outside researchers to come to our
>campus to recruit our students (usually through posters or informational
>handouts) as study participants for both behavioral and clinical
>studies.  These studies have already been approved by another
>IRB--perhaps at a nearby institution, but sometimes by distant,
>unfamiliar IRBs.  I would like to hear from other institutions about
>procedures you have in place to handle these kinds of requests.
>(1) Who gives permission to the outside researcher to recruit on your
>campus?
>(2) What criteria are used in making the decision to give or deny
>permission?
>(3) What role, if any, does your own institution's IRB play?
>(4) Do you treat invasive and non-invasive studies the same or
>differently?
>(5) What is the liability of your own institution if you allow an
>outsider to recruit on your campus and something goes wrong?
>(6) If you allow this practice, do you have an obligation to inform
>parents when students apply or are accepted to your institution?
>We will be having a discussion about this at our February 19 IRB
>meeting, so quick responses will be appreciated.  I expect that this
>question will generate a fair amount of interest, so please share your
>comments with the entire list.
>Thanks!
>Barbara
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