Question

You are conducting research on young people’s views on local youth leisure facilities. You have been approved to conduct a focus group in a local youth club, but you arrive to discover that you have been given only a half hour timeslot, even though it normally takes you at least ten minutes to explain the project and give out consent forms for young people to sign. Nonetheless, you feel under pressure to secure your target sample size.

•What are your options? (i.e. solutions or compromises, etc.)

**Think hard about possible solutions and their ethical implications. In a short sentence or two describe how the solution satisfies each of the three Common Rule requirements

Answer 1

What are your options? - solution

In order to complete the project, or solve the problem, we could divide it into different different states which would help in reaching the objective goal. Here, we divide it into three different state:

1. Explaining the project to the people.
2. Giving enough time so that the participants could fill in the details in the distributed consent forms .
3. Collection time of the forms.

In order to achieve these goals, I could prepare a quick presentation that would be of around 8-9 slides, and with 1min/slide, the presentation would be over in 9 minutes, ideally. It should be taken care that the slides should include graphics and images so that the message could be conveyed more easily. Meanwhile, during the time of presentation, one of my friends, could distribute the forms. After the end of presentation, we could ask the participants to fill in the forms and give them 15 minutes for the same. The total time would be 24 minutes. In the remaining 6 minutes, me and my friend could together collect the forms, such and might also allow an extra minute to someone if they require, meanwhile also count the collected form number, in accordance with the number of forms distributed.