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If you are conducting any research involving human participants, you must normally give them, and have them sign, an informed consent statement. Detailed information about the research may be provided as part of the informed consent statement or in an additional information letter.
An informed consent statement/information letter has two purposes:
The Research Ethics Board provides a downloadable informed consent statement template. We strongly suggest you use the wording provided in the template and add additional information as it applies to your study. Guidelines for the additional information are provided here.
The informed consent statement should be written in second person ("You are invited..."). Use of first person ("I") can be interpreted as suggestive and coercive. If the informed consent statement or information letter is to be in a foreign language, submit the foreign language version and an English translation when seeking Research Ethics Board (REB) review.
Depending on the research method used in the project, each participant must be given a copy of the informed consent statement (and information letter if applicable) to read prior to participation in the study, in paper or electronic format.
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