Sampling Techniques and IRB Approval

Title Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name Date Part 1 1 Identify potential ethical issues when dealing with population, sample selection, and data collection. Some of the ethical concerns that may arise during the process of sample and population include the following: 1) Selection bias may reduce the sample representativeness (Pannucci & Wilkins, 2010, p. 3); 2) Privacy and confidentiality are essential since there is a risk of disclosing the participants’ identity (Dougherty, 2021); and 3) Informed consent is crucial since the participants need to understand and voluntarily participate in the study. Part 2 1 What is informed consent? What might have been required before survey data or archival data were collected for the sample datasets? Informed consent is educating the potential participants regarding the details of the research study, aim and objectives, methods to be used, the risks and benefits involved in the research study, and how the participants can decide to participate willingly or not. Accordingly, before administering a survey or before decisions were made regarding the sort of archival data to use in the sample datasets, it would have been correct to describe a research process to the participants and ask them consent (Bazzanno et al., 2021, p. 81). This process may also involve going to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) to ensure the study and all its procedures meet the IRB’s ethical standards (Orimadegun, 2020, p. 1). For instance, when the use of health questionnaires is used, the participant must be first transferred to the practice’s policy concerning the utilization, and privacy of the health information. 2 What steps might you have had to take regarding site permission and participant consent if you had collected these data yourself? If collecting data personally, then permission from a site entails seeking permission from relevant governments or other authorities in the areas where the study is going to be conducted. This might include submitting a research proposal and conducting research in conformity with the laid down standard of the institutio...