Informed Consent

Crafting a consent form is one of the most important parts of preparing an application for IRB Approval. We provide a Sample Consent Form template on this website, and we strongly urge you to use it as a template, cutting and pasting information pertinent to your study into it.

In addition, please read the Guidelines and Required Elements of Informed Consent as stipulated by the US Government Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP). This page lists the items that are necessary on any consent form. You can read more details at: http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/assurance/consentckls.htm

Please note that if you use our Sample Consent Form as a template, you will be fulfilling each of these requirements. If you strongly feel that a consent form is not appropriate for your study, be sure to consult Item 1(b) from OHRP's Guidelines and Required Elements of Informed Consent, and provide a justification for not using one in your IRB application.