The informed consent requirements are not intended to preempt any applicable federal, state, or local laws that require additional information to be disclosed in order for informed consent to be legally effective. B. Consent when research involves special populations as subjects Research involving special populations as subjects, such as children, prisoners, pregnant women, mentally disabled persons and other potentially vulnerable subjects, have special requirements. These requirements are discussed in detail in Section VI of this document. The consent form should be worded so that the person signing can understand it. It is the policy of the School of Education's Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects that no investigator may involve a human being as a subject in research, unless determined exempt under these guidelines, without obtaining informed consent of the subject or the subject's legally authorized representative.
Most research requires signed written consent.
On rare occasions, a waiver of signed written consent, oral consent, or implied consent may be approved. Following is a description of the informed consent categories. This form may be read to the subject or the subject's legally authorized representative, or adequate time must be given for the subject or the subject's legally authorized representative to read it, before it is signed. Each subject will be asked whether the subject wants documentation linking the subject with the research, and the subject's wishes will govern. When the signed written documentation requirement is waived, the Committee may require the investigator to provide subjects with a written statement regarding the research.