Informed Consent:
Waiver of signed consent
Waiver of signed consent
•What if the
consent form would be the ONLY place
participants’ names would be recorded?
•You can request a
waiver of signed consent
–You STILL give subjects the informed consent information, BUT they do not sign it. They keep it.
–Filling out the survey becomes their consent to participate.
•This is NOT
an option if you are doing any sort of
audio- or video-taping