3. Procedures: What precisely will be done to the participants? Explain in detail your methods and procedures in terms of what will be done to participants. If you are using a questionnaire or handout, please include a copy with each copied set of application documents. 4. Risks and Benefits: What are the potential risks to the participants? How do you propose to minimize these risks? What potential benefits will accrue to justify taking such risks? 5. Confidentiality: Adequate provisions must be made to protect the privacy of participants and to maintain confidentiality of identifiable information. Explain how your procedures accomplish this objective, such as means of data storage, data location and duration, description of persons with access to the data, and method of destroying the data when completed. Also, explain in this section that the data will be kept for 3 years or for as long as required by external agencies or funding sources. At the conclusion of that time period, all data must be destroyed. 6. Obtaining Consent: FSU faculty, staff, and students must obtain the informed consent of any potential human participant before involving that person in research. Typically, you do this by providing the participants with an informed consent document written in simple, lay language. State how the participants’ informed consent will be obtained. Submit a final copy of the Consent Form in a 7. Consent Forms and Information to Include: separate document, as it will be provided to participants. the Consent Form should be addressed to and signed When using children or minors in research, exclusively by the parent/guardian to gain their consent for their child to participate. A separate
3. Procedures: What precisely will be done to the participants? Explain in detail your methods and procedures in terms of what will be done to participants. If you are using a questionnaire or handout, please include a copy with each copied set of application documents. 4. Risks and Benefits: What are the potential risks to the participants? How do you propose to minimize these risks? What potential benefits will accrue to justify taking such risks? 5. Confidentiality: Adequate provisions must be made to protect the privacy of participants and to maintain confidentiality of identifiable information. Explain how your procedures accomplish this objective, such as means of data storage, data location and duration, description of persons with access to the data, and method of destroying the data when completed. Also, explain in this section that the data will be kept for 3 years or for as long as required by external agencies or funding sources. At the conclusion of that time period, all data must be destroyed. 6. Obtaining Consent: FSU faculty, staff, and students must obtain the informed consent of any potential human participant before involving that person in research. Typically, you do this by providing the participants with an informed consent document written in simple, lay language. State how the participants’ informed consent will be obtained. 7. Consent Forms and Information to Include: Submit a final copy of the Consent Form in a separate document, as it will be provided to participants. When using children or minors in research, the Consent Form should be addressed to and signed exclusively by the parent/guardian to gain their consent for their child to participate. A separate
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