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Documenting Consent
If the protocol is exempt, the Board usually requires that you provide some information at the beginning of the survey informing the participant of the purposed of the study, what they will do, how long it will take, and any issues regarding confidentiality. You should also include information on how to terminate the survey and withdraw, if possible.
If you are required to document consent, your participants need to submit a signed copy of a consent form unless you are able to document electronic signatures. The Board is able to grant a waiver of documentation of consent if the collection of signatures is a risk to the participant or if the research presents no more than minimal risk to the participants and involves no procedures for which written consent is normally required outside of the research context. For example, if a study was not exempt, but qualified for expedited review, the Board could grant a waiver of documentation of consent, thus allowing the researcher to assume consent based on the participant’s willingness to complete the survey. In such cases, providing information about the survey as explained in the paragraph above would be appropriate.
For more information about media consents, see Consents.
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