Do they need to be in separate envelopes? I know that I have received a
variety of surveys that just use one envelope for all information.
At 09:46 AM 3/6/01 -0500, Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote:
>I am the IRB chair at our small liberal arts college. I have a bunch of
>IRB websites from other colleges and NIH but I can't find the piece of
>information I need.
>
>This is the issue: students in a political science class want to mail
>(names from the phone book) a questionnaire asking about political
>opinions and voting behavior. The only sensitive question is income
>(indicated within $20000 intervals). Our standard procedure is to have
>participants sign and return the informed consent form. It would
>typically be returned in a different envelope from the questionnaire to
>keep the questionnaire anonymous. This procedure is too expensive for
>the students (paying for two return envelopes). Thus the question: can
>the participant consent without a signature? Can you say something like
>"by completing and returning this questionnaire you have consented to
>participate in this study"? A related question: if this procedure is
>ethical, then why ever have people sign informed consent forms for
>simple attitude questionnaires such as this?
>Marie
>
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>Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
>Program Director & Assistant Professor of Psychology
>Transylvania University
>300 North Broadway
>Lexington, KY 40508-1797
>Office: (859) 281-3656
>Web page: http://www.transy.edu/homepages/mhelweglarsen/index2.html
Deb
Dr. Deborah S. Briihl
Dept. of Psychology and Counseling
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA 31698
(229) 333-5994
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