Scenario: You have been requested by the Institutional Review Board to justify your study using a qualitative research design. You have selected 2 focus groups with 12 participants in each of the two groups.
Address how you will protect the human subject participants in your study. Consider the following issues:
1) informed consent,
2) voluntary participation,
3) confidentiality,
4) mitigation of risks,
5) maintenance and security of all data and materials,
6) use of audio/video,
7) participant’s right to drop out of study, and
8) deception/coercion.