As a policy, all institutions and centers within the United States conducting human research should outline a health literacy plan for specific types of research (example: clinical, genomic, social behavioral). A plan for health literacy is not required for exempt research. Additionally, all consent forms will have the same basic information, but each type of research should have a different format, in order for the participant to understand the implications of choosing if they would want to have individual results or incidental findings returned and what that means. Furthermore, if a researcher notices something strange with a participant’s results, the researcher has an obligation to provide that participant with the number of an expert, so their results can be
As a policy, all institutions and centers within the United States conducting human research should outline a health literacy plan for specific types of research (example: clinical, genomic, social behavioral). A plan for health literacy is not required for exempt research. Additionally, all consent forms will have the same basic information, but each type of research should have a different format, in order for the participant to understand the implications of choosing if they would want to have individual results or incidental findings returned and what that means. Furthermore, if a researcher notices something strange with a participant’s results, the researcher has an obligation to provide that participant with the number of an expert, so their results can be