This document is a checklist for research involving vulnerable populations such as students, employees, or residents. It ensures special protections such as notifying supervisors, obtaining support letters, maintaining confidentiality, ensuring voluntary participation, and minimizing risks. The checklist confirms these protections are in place before the research begins.
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52. Checklist-VP - Involving Students, Employees or Residents
This document is a checklist for research involving vulnerable populations such as students, employees, or residents. It ensures special protections such as notifying supervisors, obtaining support letters, maintaining confidentiality, ensuring voluntary participation, and minimizing risks. The checklist confirms these protections are in place before the research begins.
This document is a checklist for research involving vulnerable populations such as students, employees, or residents. It ensures special protections such as notifying supervisors, obtaining support letters, maintaining confidentiality, ensuring voluntary participation, and minimizing risks. The checklist confirms these protections are in place before the research begins.
CHECKLIST FOR RESEARCH INVOLVING STUDENTS, EMPLOYEES OR RESIDENTS
(VULNERABLE POPULATION) Investigator: IEC Ref:
Study Title: ……………………………………………………………………………………………
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Participants who are students, employees or residents require special considerations:
Does the employer or supervisor of the research No Yes
participant need to be aware of the research project? Is there a letter of support and/ or internal services No Yes checklist? Have the participants been assured that their status No Yes (education, employment, and/or promotion) will not be affected by any decision to participate or not? Have the risks to participants been minimized? No Yes Have participants been assured that participation is No Yes voluntary (no signs of coercion)? Have participants been assured that confidentiality No Yes will be protected or maintained?