RESEARCH ETHICS: VULNERABLE & ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS

1993年的NIH振兴法案规定将妇女和少数民族纳入NIH临床研究。到1994年，国家卫生研究院制定了一套指导方针，规定妇女和少数群体成员及其亚群体应被纳入国家卫生研究院支持的所有涉及人类参与者的生物医学和行为研究项目。 参与少数民族人口数据收集的非少数民族人数有所增加;然而，通过开设研究生、专业或继续教育课程来教育研究人员了解他们正在进入的社区的培训方式却很少。该申请的目的是开发两门专业水平的校园课程，重点关注人类研究参与。 这些课程是专为研究生，初级/高级研究人员和社区成员感兴趣的人类参与研究，并希望获得继续教育学分。这两个课程的重点是参与研究的道德问题：（a）弱势群体和（B）特殊群体（少数民族）。虽然要求调查人员将妇女和少数民族纳入联邦资助的研究，但很少有继续教育，研究生或专业课程使调查人员能够处理在这些人群中进行研究时出现的复杂，具有挑战性的负担和责任。弱势群体包括儿童、囚犯、认知障碍者以及因环境、残疾或疾病而表现出个人权威减弱的人。这些课程将为研究人员在其研究生涯的各个阶段提供机会，探索研究元素的道德和文化/种族/性别/阶级规范。

The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 mandated the inclusion of women and ethnic minorities in NIH clinical research studies. By 1994, NIH had developed a set of guidelines which stated that women and members of minority groups and their subpopulations were to be included in all NIH-supported biomedical and behavioral research projects which involved human participants. There has been an increase in the numbers of non-minorities involved in the collection of data in ethnic minority populations; however, there has been little in the way of training through the development of graduate, professional or continuing education courses emerging to educate researchers about the communities they are entering. The aim of this application is to develop two professional level campus-wide courses focused on human research participation. These courses were designed for graduate students, junior/senior level researchers and community members interested in human participant research and wishing to obtain continuing education credit. The focus of the two courses will be ethics of research participation in: (a) vulnerable populations and (b) special populations (ethnic minorities). While investigators are required to include women and ethnic minorities in federally funded studies, few continuing education, graduate or professional courses have prepared investigators to handle the complex, challenging burdens and responsibilities that arise in conducting research in these populations. Vulnerable populations include children, prisoners, the cognitively impaired, and those who exhibit diminished individual authority through circumstances, disability or illness. These courses will provide opportunities for researchers at all stages of their research careers to explore the ethics and cultural/racial/gender/class norms of research elements.