Module Four: Test Your Understanding
You have reached the end of the instruction on informed consent. Below are 20 true/false and multiple choice questions to help check your understanding of the process. After you have answered these questions, you will be asked to enter information that will permit you to send your results to an e-mail address.
Click on the dot next to the best answer for each question.
1. It should be clearly stated if there are no benefits to a study.
2. Beneficence means that each person has the right to decide not to be in a study.
3. Justice in terms of human research means, attempting at all times to distribute the risks and benefits to the human subjects fairly and without bias.
4. Adverse events should be reported to the IRB
5. A participant who is not of legal age can consent to be in a study.
6. Autonomy means that participants should be protected from harm.
7. The purpose of continuing review is to determine if the risks and benefits:
8. ____________signify developments that might require a revised consent form.
9. When listing risks, you do not need to list "soft" risks such as embarrassment.
10. You will know the terms of continued review when you receive approval from the IRB.
11. The consent document should be presented to the participant when it is most convenient for the investigators.
12. Risks and benefits are better understood by the researcher after the research has begun.
13. A consent document should generally be written to a/an ________ grade reading level.
14. The participant can __________ withdraw from the study without penalty.
15. ____________ is/are not important factor(s) when asking and answering questions.
16. Research projects conducted at other sites should be reviewed by the JMU IRB as well as the other institution's IRB.
17. The ________________ relationship is not a potentially troublesome one during participant selection.
18. No further review is required once the IRB has reviewed a project.
19. Researchers with financial interests in the research must inform their participants.
20. The James Madison University's IRB reviews only federally funded research.
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