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For both the Protocol and Informed Consent:

• Effective with the Spring 2020 semester 缅北禁地 transitioned to using the Cayuse IRB online submission system.
• Use everyday language.
  This will allow the widest audience, including the IRB members, to understand the purpose of your research, and the procedures you have planned, and any risks or benefits involved.
• Separate your personal agenda from the research procedures.
  The protocol is the place to tell the IRB how you plan to interact with your research participants to obtain the data. The informed consent tells the participants what will happen to them during the research project. The hypothesis is the place to state your research problem and proposed solution.

Protocol Guidelines

IRB committee members, from a wide variety of disciplines, must be able to understand the language used in protocols. Please do not use discipline-specific jargon or acronyms. If you must, please define them. When in Cayuse IRB you can pdf and print the blank protocol to use as a template, or print out a partially completed protocol at any step of the way.  The previous hardcopy tempalte (no longer used) is provide  here.

Be clear and concise, but thorough, providing as many details as possible, especially about the data collection and security. Limit the scope of the document to the purpose and background of your research, the procedures you will use to elicit data from your human subjects, risk and benefits, and how you intend to analyze the data to answer your research question. If you are conducting a qualitative research project, please define your methodology clearly.

Informed Consent Guidelines

The informed consent must give prospective participants the information they need to make an informed decision whether to participate in a research project. Please use the template provided to make sure you include all the elements of informed consent. Remember to write the consent form in language which can be understood by your potential subjects. If you must use discipline-specific terms, define them clearly in everyday language.

• Write at a sixth- to eighth- grade reading level.
  Lay people, as well as IRB committee members and staff from outside your own discipline, must understand your informed consent document. Please make this document simple and informative. Writing it at a sixth to eighth grade reading level will allow the widest audience to be eligible to participate in your project.
• Check the readability level of your consent form.
  When you have finished writing your consent, go to the Word menu bar and choose “Tools/Options/Spelling and Grammar.” Check the “Check Grammar with Spelling” box and the “Show Readability Statistics” box. Then run a spell check, and the readability statistics will be displayed when the spell check is finished.