Please describe in detail how you will approach potential participants and describe the study. Consider issues such as reading the informed consent to populations that might be reasonably expected to include illiterate individuals. It is the researchers responsibility to design a process that insures informed consent. Describe how you will inform a potential participant that they do not meet the criteria to be included in the study. The Department of Health and Human Services provides very specific guidelines concerning the information provided to participants as part of the informed consent process.
Many researchers confuse confidentiality and anonymity.
Confidentiality is the ethical requirement not to disclose information obtained from the participant without their consent. Anonymity is established when identifying information from the participants has never been collected. Form should explain if compensation is extra credit, credit added to an exam, or experimental credit. Form does not explain what procedure will be used to assure participant receives credit when offering credit and promising anonymity. Statements in the informed consent are inconsistent with or contradict statements in the protocol submitted.