Informed Consent

Informed Consent

A potential participant must fully understand the purpose, risks, and benefits of a research study before agreeing to participate. But because participants must always be allowed to withdraw freely from a study, you should consider informed consent not as a one-and-done stage, but an ongoing process continuing even after you have collected the data (because a participant may reconsider and wish to withdraw responses, if possible).

See the Protocol Forms, Sample Templates, and Appendices page for sample informed consent, assent, and permission templates.