Research Coordinator Blog

  Last time, I continued walking you through some of the sections of the REB application and giving you tips for completing them. This week, I will go through the remaining sections in the application and give you some general tips and reminders about the REB process. Full disclosure: I am a member of the REB (2012-present). These are my personal opinions and following my advice does not guarantee any particular outcome during the review process.          When completing the sections on consent and withdrawal (Section 6) there are a few important things to consider. Remember that consent is informed and ongoing, which means you need to give participants all the information they need to make an informed decision and that they can change their decision at any point in the research process without any negative repercussions. You’ll want to make sure that it’s clear to participants that there are no consequences to them withdrawing from the ...

  Last time, I began walking you through some of the sections of the REB application and giving you tips for completing them. This week, I will go through the more sections of the application. Next time I will wrap things up! Full disclosure: I am a member of the REB (2012-present). These are my personal opinions and following my advice does not guarantee any particular outcome during the review process. Participants sub-sections (Section 4.2b) explain what people have to “be” in order to participate (e.g., female student, under 30 years old, enrolled in a GNED, mother to at least 1 biological child). Your exclusion criteria (c) are the opposite, but you may not need to specify them unless there is a grey area (e.g., what if someone is currently pregnant but the child isn’t born yet- do they qualify for the study described above?) or if you have a reason to exclude certain categories (e.g., excluding adoptive mothers if you’re looking at something that requires that the person had...