An e-consent framework for tiered informed consent for human genomic research in the global south, implemented as a REDCap template.

ABSTRACT: Research involving human participants requires their consent, and it is common practice to capture consent information on paper and store those hard copies, presenting issues such as long-term storage requirements, inefficient retrieval of consent forms for reference or future use, and the potential for transcription errors when transcribing captured informed consent. There have been calls to move to electronic capture of the consent provided by research participants (e-consent) as a way of addressing these issues. A tiered framework for e-consent was designed using the freely available features in the inbuilt REDCap e-consent module. We implemented 'branching logic', 'wet signature' and 'auto-archiver' features to the main informed consent and withdrawal of consent documents. The branchin

SUBMITTER: Tamuhla T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9694827 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature