Abstract
The task of the IRB in reviewing research protocols involving patients with psychiatric illness is among its most difficult responsibilities. Ethical concerns applicable to other areas of medical research—concerns about the physician-patient relationship, the effect of illness on one’s mental state, the detrimental effect of long term hospitalization on one’s sense of autonomy—all seem to become heightened in the mind of the lay public as well as many professionals when the research involves psychiatric patients. The very nature of psychiatric illness calls into question the competence of these potential subjects to give their consent. In addition, the kind of information often essential to many psychiatric research studies can be highly personal and may require special consideration in order to respect the privacy of subjects and to maintain strict confidentiality. Therefore, psychiatric research protocols may require additional scrutiny by the review board even for “no-risk” research projects.
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Kane, J.M., Robbins, L.L., Stanley, B. (1982). Psychiatric Research. In: Greenwald, R.A., Ryan, M.K., Mulvihill, J.E. (eds) Human Subjects Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4157-4_15
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