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Experts Meet on Issues Related to Youth Smoking-Cessation Research
Expert meeting on youth tobacco dependence treatment consent issues
In 2002, project staff at the University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for Health Research and Policy held a one-day meeting to explore how regulations, particularly those of internal review boards, affect youth smoking cessation research.
Key Results
- "Expert Workshop on Human Subjects and Ethical Issues Related to Treatment and Research in the Area of Youth Smoking Cessation" took place October 16, 2002 in Chicago. Twenty-nine experts in human subjects and ethics, as well as youth smoking cessation, attended the meeting.
As a result of the workshop discussions, staff generated five recommended action steps to improve research and treatment protocols for youth smokers:- Develop and launch a Web site that includes the following:
- Case studies of youth smoking cessation programs and how these programs worked with internal review boards.
- Frequently asked questions that internal review board administrators receive from researchers.
- Consultant lists for researchers and internal review boards to refer to for specific questions.
- Publish a literature search on youth smoking cessation research.
- Develop a consensus statement on regulatory and ethical issues, which would provide guidelines for internal review boards that are consistent with the needs of researchers working with adolescents.
- Conduct research to document the impact of internal review board requirements on treatment.
- Disseminate the workshop articles through conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications.
- Develop and launch a Web site that includes the following:
- Based on presentations from the workshop, project staff published two papers in the peer-reviewed journal Ethics & Behavior, vol. 14, no. 4, 2004.
The first article is "Human Participant Challenges in Youth Tobacco Cessation Research: Researchers' Perspectives."
The second article is "Human Participant Challenges in Youth-Focused Research: Perspectives and Practices of IRB Administrators."
The workshop summary report and other presentations are also available online.
Funding
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provided $57,163 in support of the project between February 2002 and April 2004.