STUDY CONSENT FORM
Reginald Grey, Psychology Student: reggie.grey@acadiau.ca
Dr. Karmen Bleile, Laboratory Instructor: karmen.bleile@acadiau.ca
You are invited to participate in a research project examining public tolerance of some real (in some jurisdictions) and completely hypothetical government-imposed health interventions. You will be presented with a possible six different scenarios of government-imposed health interventions (three real-life examples, three hypothetical examples) and asked if you’d give or reject your consent.
Your participation in this study is completely voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time without penalty. However, because no names or identifying information are included with your survey, once you have submitted your responses, it will no longer be possible for the researcher to remove your data from the data set. Please note that by consenting to participate, you have not waived your rights to legal recourse should you experience any research-related harm. This study is being conducted as part of a course requirement for the Research Design and Analysis course (PSYC 2023).
All information obtained is strictly confidential. DO NOT enter your name anywhere on the questionnaires. The only potentially identifying information associated with your responses to the questionnaire will be your country of residence, gender identity, ethnicity, and year of birth. Please note that any information sent electronically or stored online may be legally accessed by domestic or foreign authorities. All responses will be analyzed as a group and all data will be presented in summary form; no individual data will ever be presented. Only the researcher (Reggie Grey) and potentially the lab instructor for the course (Dr. Karmen Bleile) will see the raw data. However, participants’ data may be accessed by designated employees of Acadia University as needed to fulfill their duties in managing and maintaining Acadia’s software and hardware systems. While the results of this study will be included in a paper submitted for PSYC 2023 as part of a course requirement, as mentioned above, only summary statistics will ever be presented, and no individual data will ever be included in the paper.
This study consists of a randomizing question, 4 mandatory demographic questions and 6 possible survey questions, which in total will take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. There are no known harms from the completion of this study. There is no compensation for completing this study. While there are no direct benefits to you in terms of the research results (including monetary), your participation will contribute to a dataset that will be used to further our understanding of the relationships that exist among these variables.
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