If you are using secondary or archival data, completing the
IRB application can be tricky. However, the secret to this is remembering that
you are not actually having any contact with participants, so keep this in mind
as you go through the application. Make sure that the data you will be using
has been "deidentified," meaning that no names or identifying info
will be included. Let's go through some of the trickier questions.
q. 11. List your research questions, in the section where it
asks the data source give the name of the archival data set.
q. 12. Discuss how you will get permission to use the data
set, how you will access and analyze it. Don’t mention anything about
participants.
q. 13. Your stakeholder may be where you get the data, see
if they want a summary of your results.
q. 16 indicate not applicable for all items.
q. 25. Indicate that your data will be anonymous.
q. 26. Indicate no, there will not be a link
q. 28 n/a
q. 37-39. Regardless of what instruments were used in the
original study, you are not administering them. So indicate n/a for these.
q. 40-42. List the number of participants in the original
study; just say that it is the data set total. For the rest of this section say
n/a.
q. 43. Answer No to all questions.
q. 44-45 n/a
Next time I will address a student question on covariates,
mediators, and moderators. Do you have an issue or a question that you would
like me to discuss in a future post? Would
you like to be a guest writer? Send me your ideas!
leann.stadtlander@waldenu.edu
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