Institutional Review Board

• The 小草影院 IRB is registered with the OHRP: IORG0010222; IRB00012143 (updated 01/19/2023)
• Federalwide Assurance Number: FWA00028933 (expires 10/31/2024)

If you are conducting research with human participants, you must secure approval from the IRB before initiating your research. The OHRP defines research as any activity involving human participants that involves a 鈥渟ystematic investigation designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge.鈥� Activities that meet this definition may be funded or unfunded, or may be conducted as a component of another program not usually considered research. However, there are some endeavors involving human participants that fall outside of the OHRP鈥檚 definition of 鈥渞esearch鈥� and therefore do not require IRB approval:

• Institutional research: Quality improvement and quality assurance activities conducted solely for the intent of maintaining or improving quality of services provided by an institution are not considered research activities.听 However, if the data collected are generalizable and are to be shared outside of the institution through discussion, presentation, or publication, the activity qualifies as research.听 Sometimes, data from a quality improvement or quality assurance activity become of interest to the external community after they have been analyzed.听 In these cases, the research use of the data collected for another purpose must be reviewed.
• Classroom activities/class assignments: Classroom activities may include instructing students in research methodologies and techniques.听 If the sole purpose of the activity is to teach students research techniques or methodology and not to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge, it is not considered to be research.听 However, if students will practice research methodologies on human beings, they should be instructed in the ethical conduct of such activities, should be advised to obtain informed consent from their practice subjects, and participants鈥� identifying information should not be connected to their responses.