The application inquires about the selection AND recruitment process. What is the selection process?
Federal regulations require that an IRB assure that no specific category of subjects is discriminated against in the human subject research process. This does not mean that a researcher may not choose to only investigate a specific subject group. It simply means that the researcher must have a rationale for specifically excluding a subject category. The “selection process” describes HOW the target subject groups were identified; WHAT subject groups will be excluded; WHY those subject groups will be excluded; and the PROCESS that will be implemented to assure they are excluded.
