This study aims to measure the mental, educational and physiological effects of sleep deprivation on adolescents and means of alleviating those effects. Participants are aged 13–18, and will spend 15 days sequestered in a study facility under the supervision of Read More …
Category: Research Ethics Private Cases
High-paying survey
A business school professor with a sizeable research budget would like to study attitudes of corporate leaders concerning effective leadership strategies that have allowed their companies to thrive. A corporate leadership training firm has agreed to forward the study invitation Read More …
Collaborative trial
An employee at institution A, a physical therapy centre, wishes to conduct an investigation into the effects of a new massage technique developed by the employee on relieving pain in individuals who suffer from chronic back problems. Institution A does Read More …
Conformity replication
A student wishes to replicate Milgram’s famous conformity study, with a slight modification. Subjects will be informed they and another volunteer are participating in a teaching intervention test. Subjects are told that they will be a “tester” other volunteer will Read More …
Fitness band
The proposed study will test the effect of a fitness band combined with monetary incentives on the fitness activity of participants. Participants will be given a fitness band to wear that monitors their number of steps taken each day, over Read More …
Health & Grades Study
A professor is interested in the extent to which students’ medical issues affect their academic ability. He wants to recruit students at his college to fill in a questionnaire concerning any major health issues they have had in the past Read More …
Health information study
A researcher wishes to conduct a retrospective observational study on the health records of patients at a particular hospital who recently underwent a cardiovascular surgery in the past year. The researcher would be looking for correlations between long-term complications arising Read More …
Intensive reflex training on video game performance study
The purpose of the study is to determine whether intensive, short term reflex training methods on the performance of proficient amateur players of fast paced action online video games (based on actions per minute) can be enhanced to the level Read More …
Large scale research on the genetics of cardiovascular disease
Kurt is a teacher in Germany. He has been asked to join a large research project that is looking at the genetics of cardiovascular disease. This will involve giving a DNA sample, answering a questionnaire and allowing details of his Read More …
Mood enhancement device
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive procedure in which electrodes are placed on someone’s head to stimulate various regions via electric currents. While most uses for the procedure are clinical, a researcher is trying to develop a tDCS Read More …