If a Research Participant Becomes Upset in the Course of a Minimal-Risk

question 38

Multiple Choice

If a research participant becomes upset in the course of a minimal-risk experiment,

• A) the experimenter must notify the IRB immediately.
• B) the experimenter must discard the data for that participant.
• C) the participant is obligated to complete the experiment.
• D) the experimenter must make an effort to ensure that the participant leaves the experiment feeling no worse than he or she did at the start of the experiment.

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