The Ethical Requirement of Informed Consent Means That

question 327

Multiple Choice

The ethical requirement of informed consent means that:

• A) all participants must read and approve any written reports of the research results before they are published.
• B) participants must be completely informed about the purpose and conditions of the research, and must be free to withdraw from the research at any time.
• C) research participants must agree not to divulge any information about the nature of the study to any outside party.
• D) once the participants have agreed to participate in the study, they may not withdraw for any reason other than medical necessity.

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Definitions:

Rank Sums

A statistic used in non-parametric tests that involves summing the ranks of observations in one of two samples when comparing medians.

One-Tail

Refers to a one-tailed test in statistics where the critical area of a distribution is one-sided so that it tests for the possibility of the relationship in a single direction.

Ordinal

Pertaining to data classification where the order of the values is significant but differences between values are not necessarily consistent.

Interval

An interval in statistics refers to the difference between two points on a scale, often used to measure the distance or gap between data points.