To understand how attitudes toward race and sociodemographic variables, including stage of professional development, exposure to implicit bias instruction, and age may differ, relate, and predict attitudes toward anti-bias training among healthcare professionals.
We are seeking participants from academic medical campuses who are:
Taking part in the study is completely voluntary. While there is no guarantee that all the responses you provide will be kept confidential, this study has safeguarded how data is collected, stored, and secured to meet the standards of the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (CUHS), Harvard's Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Harvard University.
For your privacy, data collected in this study, via the online survey will be automatically coded (i.e., de-identified) when you respond to each item. Also for your privacy, your IP address will not be collected or stored while visiting this study’s platform, as IP addresses are considered to be directly identifiable information. This study is designed to be anonymous.
Data will be stored in tables on an SQL server (encrypted) and a relational table will automatically transfer the data to csv files. The csv files serve as a backup copy of the data and are stored on the host’s server, which is also encrypted for security, meeting CUHS IRB standards. While this study is active, only the graduate student researcher and web developer will have access to the raw data, which was de-identified upon input and will not be manipulated.
The sole purpose for the data collected and stored by this study is to be used for academic purposes (i.e., thesis paper and potential preliminary findings for future projects, such as a dissertation). The study’s findings will be preserved and shared with the scholarly community via digital repositories, such as ProQuest and Harvard’s Digital Access to Scholarship (DASH) and potentially published via academic journals. Only the graduate student researcher will retain the collected data after the study ends for personal reference.
You may choose to withdraw from the study at any time, without consequences by using the Remove My Data form. If you choose to participate in the study, you will be prompted to generate a study ID that you must store for your records. To request that your data be removed from this study, you will be prompted to use this study ID in the Remove My Data form.
Supplying the study ID to remove your data bypasses the need to provide your email address (a direct identifier) to the research team, therefore providing the utmost protections for anonymity and privacy.
There is no risk to you by participating in this online survey. By taking part in this survey, it will contribute to the paradigm of social psychology, specifically within the field of implicit social cognition. Also, by being a part of this survey, it may raise awareness about bias in the self, potentially inspiring further understanding.
This study "will be reviewed" (NOTE: then change to "has been reviewed and approved") by the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (CUHS), Harvard's Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Harvard University, ensuring that it meets all ethical standards and regulatory requirements for research involving human participants.
--Projected to be Waiver of Consent to Participate by CUHS IRB at Harvard University--
If you have any questions or need further information, please contact:
Laura Melendez
Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
Extension School
Email: lam234@g.harvard.edu
Nicole Mayer
Research Assistant & Web Developer
Email: nmayerresearch@gmail.com
Adam Magerman, PhD, Thesis Director, email: adammagerman@gmail.com
Christina Wood Baker, PhD, Research Advisor, email: christinabaker@fas.harvard.edu
The Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (CUHS), Harvard University Institutional Review Board:
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Smith Campus Center, Suite 645, Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 496-2847
Email: cuhs@harvard.edu
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