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Potential Ethical Risks and Action Plans Template

As a researcher, you must take steps to minimize potential risks. Potential risks fall into these five categories: physical, psychological, socio-economic, loss of confidentiality, and legal. Weighing the potential risks of research against the potential benefits are part of the IRB review process.

Complete the following tables to determine any ethical risks your research study may pose to participants. For all ‘yes’ answers, determine strategies to minimize the potential risk. Be sure to remove all bolded, italicized instructional text before submitting your template.

Table 1. Physical Risks

Physical discomfort, pain, injury, illness or disease brought about by the methods and procedures of the research.

Ethical Risk Type	Yes	No	Strategy(ies) to Minimize Risk
Does your research involve physical stimuli, such as noise, electric shock, heat, cold, electric magnetic or gravitational fields? *[Describe the specific physical stimuli involved.]*
Does your research involve engaging a subject in a social situation which could involve violence? *[Provide specifics.]*
Does your research involve other physical risks to study participants? *[Specify these risks below. Add table rows as needed.]*
*[Other risk]*
*[Other risk]*
*[Other risk]*

Table 2. Psychological Risks

The production of negative affective states, such as anxiety, depression, guilt, shock, loss of self-esteem, and altered behavior.

Ethical Risk Type	Yes	No	Strategy(ies) to Minimize Risk
Does your research result in negative affective states for study participants? Consider anxiety, depression, guilt, shock, and altered behavior. *[Describe the specific negative affective state(s) involved.]*
Does your study involve sensory or sleep deprivation, use of hypnosis, deception, or mental stresses? *[Provide specifics.]*
Does your research involve other psychological risks to study participants? *[Specify these risks below. Add table rows as needed.]*
*[Other risk]*
*[Other risk]*
*[Other risk]*

Table 3. Socio-Economic Risks

Alterations in relationships with others that are to the disadvantage of the subject, including embarrassment, loss of respect of others, labeling a subject in a way that will have negative consequences, or in some way diminish those opportunities and powers a person has by virtue of relationships with others. Economic risks involve negative financial outcomes for study participants.

Ethical Risk Type	Yes	No	Strategy(ies) to Minimize Risk
Does your study result in subjects experiencing alterations in their relationships with others that are to the disadvantage of the subject? These alterations may include embarrassment, loss of respect of others, labeling a subject in that will have negative consequences, or in some way diminish those opportunities and powers a person has by virtue of relationships with others. *[Describe the specific detrimental relationship alterations involved.]*
Does your research involve payments by subjects for procedures that are not otherwise necessary? *[Provide specifics.]*
Does your research result in subjects losing wages or other income? *[Provide specifics.]*
Does your research result in other financial costs for subjects, such as damage to the subject’s employability due to project participation? *[Please specify.]*
Does your study pose other socio-economic risks to study participants? *[Specify these risks below. Add table rows as needed.]*
*[Other risk]*
*[Other risk]*

Table 4. Loss of Confidentiality Risks

Negative consequences that result from an invasion of privacy or breach of confidentiality. Confidentiality of identifiable information is presumed and must be maintained in research involving human subjects, unless the researcher has obtained subjects’ express permission to do otherwise. Subjects have the right to be protected against injury or illegal invasions of their privacy and to preservation of their personal dignity. The more sensitive the research material, the greater the care researchers must exercise in obtaining, handling, and storing data.

Ethical Risk Type	Yes	No	Strategy(ies) to Minimize Risk
Does your study collect personal information from subjects that is not essential to the research? *[Specify what non-essential personal information was obtained and why.]*
Do others besides the researcher and other authorized staff have access to personal data about study participants? *[Specify who has access to this data and why. Also specify what personal data others besides the researcher and other authorized staff have access to.]*
Have the identities of individual subjects been released without the express consent of these subjects? *[Specify the circumstances of this release of information.]*
Has the study used the data it collected for other purposes without obtaining subjects’ consent for the data’s new use? *[Explain why the subjects’ consent was not obtained.]*
Does your study pose other loss of confidentiality risks to study participants? *[Specify these risks below. Add table rows as needed.]*
*[Other risk]*
*[Other risk]*
*[Other risk]*

Table 5. Legal Risks

Research methods result in study subjects or others being liable for violations of the law.

Ethical Risk Type	Yes	No	Strategy(ies) to Minimize Risk
Does your study reveal that subjects or others have or will engage in conduct for which they may be criminally or civilly liable? *[Provide the specifics involved.]*
Does your study require subjects or others to engage in activities for which they may be criminally or civilly liable? *[Provide specifics.]*
Does your study pose other legal risks to study participants or others? *[Specify these risks below. Add table rows as needed.]*
*[Other risk]*
*[Other risk]*
*[Other risk]*