CITI Training, Modules 1-24
(Biomedical Research) Questions and
Answers | Latest Version | 2025/2026 |
Correct & Verified
Which principle ensures research participants’ rights, safety, and welfare are prioritized?
a. Justice
b. Beneficence
✔✔c. Respect for persons
d. Confidentiality
**Rationale:** Respect for persons includes informed consent and protection of autonomy.
What is the primary purpose of an Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
a. Conduct experiments
✔✔b. Review and approve research to protect participants
c. Publish research findings
d. Recruit participants
**Rationale:** IRBs ensure ethical compliance and participant protection.
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,Which is an example of vulnerable research participants?
a. Healthy adult volunteers
✔✔b. Children
c. Graduate students
d. Professional nurses
**Rationale:** Children cannot legally provide informed consent and require extra protections.
What is required before enrolling participants in research?
a. Verbal consent only
✔✔b. Informed consent
c. Approval from family
d. Institutional support letter
**Rationale:** Informed consent ensures participants understand the study and risks.
Which principle requires researchers to maximize benefits and minimize harms?
a. Respect for persons
b. Justice
✔✔c. Beneficence
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,d. Confidentiality
**Rationale:** Beneficence emphasizes the balance of risks and benefits.
What type of research involves identifiable private information about individuals?
a. Anonymous survey
✔✔b. Human subjects research
c. Literature review
d. Animal studies
**Rationale:** Human subjects research uses identifiable data requiring protection.
Which is an example of coercion in research recruitment?
a. Providing educational pamphlets
✔✔b. Offering excessive monetary incentives
c. Giving study information
d. Asking for voluntary participation
**Rationale:** Coercion occurs when participants feel compelled due to undue influence.
What is the main purpose of confidentiality in research?
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, a. To share results widely
✔✔b. To protect participant privacy
c. To publish names in journals
d. To increase sample size
**Rationale:** Confidentiality safeguards personal and sensitive information.
Which type of risk involves potential loss of privacy?
a. Physical risk
✔✔b. Social or informational risk
c. Financial risk
d. Psychological risk
**Rationale:** Social or informational risks relate to unauthorized disclosure of private data.
What is the Belmont Report’s primary purpose?
✔✔ To provide ethical principles for research involving human subjects
b. To establish funding requirements
c. To promote clinical trials
d. To train researchers
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(Biomedical Research) Questions and
Answers | Latest Version | 2025/2026 |
Correct & Verified
Which principle ensures research participants’ rights, safety, and welfare are prioritized?
a. Justice
b. Beneficence
✔✔c. Respect for persons
d. Confidentiality
**Rationale:** Respect for persons includes informed consent and protection of autonomy.
What is the primary purpose of an Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
a. Conduct experiments
✔✔b. Review and approve research to protect participants
c. Publish research findings
d. Recruit participants
**Rationale:** IRBs ensure ethical compliance and participant protection.
1
,Which is an example of vulnerable research participants?
a. Healthy adult volunteers
✔✔b. Children
c. Graduate students
d. Professional nurses
**Rationale:** Children cannot legally provide informed consent and require extra protections.
What is required before enrolling participants in research?
a. Verbal consent only
✔✔b. Informed consent
c. Approval from family
d. Institutional support letter
**Rationale:** Informed consent ensures participants understand the study and risks.
Which principle requires researchers to maximize benefits and minimize harms?
a. Respect for persons
b. Justice
✔✔c. Beneficence
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,d. Confidentiality
**Rationale:** Beneficence emphasizes the balance of risks and benefits.
What type of research involves identifiable private information about individuals?
a. Anonymous survey
✔✔b. Human subjects research
c. Literature review
d. Animal studies
**Rationale:** Human subjects research uses identifiable data requiring protection.
Which is an example of coercion in research recruitment?
a. Providing educational pamphlets
✔✔b. Offering excessive monetary incentives
c. Giving study information
d. Asking for voluntary participation
**Rationale:** Coercion occurs when participants feel compelled due to undue influence.
What is the main purpose of confidentiality in research?
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, a. To share results widely
✔✔b. To protect participant privacy
c. To publish names in journals
d. To increase sample size
**Rationale:** Confidentiality safeguards personal and sensitive information.
Which type of risk involves potential loss of privacy?
a. Physical risk
✔✔b. Social or informational risk
c. Financial risk
d. Psychological risk
**Rationale:** Social or informational risks relate to unauthorized disclosure of private data.
What is the Belmont Report’s primary purpose?
✔✔ To provide ethical principles for research involving human subjects
b. To establish funding requirements
c. To promote clinical trials
d. To train researchers
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