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When to Obtain IRB Approval

• What exactly qualifies equally homo subjects research?
• Does my study need IRB review?
• Do students' bookish research projects require IRB approval?
• Does secondary analysis of a data set gathered for some other purpose crave a new research project for review?
• When do oral histories qualify as human subjects research?

Protocol Questions

• Who needs to be listed on the IRB Application?
• Practise I need to include my research staff or student researchers on the protocol application?
• I accept submitted my IRB Application. At present what happens?
• What is the fastest mode to observe out what happened to my study at an IRB meeting?
• Can I share my IRB protocol approving with colleagues working on similar projects?

Tutorial Questions

• I demand to complete HRP CITI and HIPAA Training.  What are the next steps?
• How Is CITI completion sent to UCI / Why is my CITI completion not showing up in the IRB application?
• I've forgotten my UCINetID password. How can I discover out what information technology is?
• How can I notice out which tutorials I've taken? How can I verify my study squad has completed the required tutorials?
• I get the following message when I endeavour logging on the tutorial: "Your Browser is non configured to accept Cookies." How do I fix this trouble?

Mail-Approval Questions

• What documents are made available in the Document Depot?
• How do I submit changes to a currently approved protocol?
• How are changes to an approved protocol reviewed?
• What is a Seven-Year De Novo Continuing Review
• When should I submit a closing written report to the IRB?

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When to Obtain IRB Approval

What exactly qualifies as human subjects inquiry?

Any systematic investigation (including pilot studies, program evaluations, qualitative research), that is designed to develop or contribute to generalizable (scholarly) knowledge, and which uses living humans or identifiable individual data virtually living humans qualifies as man subjects research. See Definition of Human being Subjects Research for more information.

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Does my study demand IRB review?

Nosotros cannot brand an official determination of whether a study requires IRB approval via email or over the phone. Please refer to the (launching May 3, 2021) Kuali Human being Field of study Research Not-Human Subject Research Module. The module volition be accessed via the UCI HRP Alphabetize folio. See Definition of Human Subjects Inquiry for more information.

Do students' academic research projects require IRB approval?

Yep, if a student's enquiry projection qualifies as man subjects research; whether it is biomedical or social-behavioral in nature, IRB approval is required prior to initiation.

Students, fellows, residents are required to obtain a faculty sponsor to oversee the enquiry. For more information on the requirements for faculty sponsor eligibility, meet Lead Researcher Eligibility.

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Does secondary assay of a data set gathered for another purpose require a new research project for review?

Yeah - IF THE DATA IS IDENTIFIABLE.

Projects that utilize an existing data prepare which includes identifiable information gathered in earlier research projects may require a new IRB protocol for review. Secondary analysis of existing data may include the review of medical records, student records, data collected from previous studies, audio/video recordings, etc. that were initially collected for another purpose. In order to be existing, the information must be "on the shelf" (i.due east., it has already been nerveless) at the time that the current enquiry is proposed.

Though such projects do not involve interactions or interventions with humans, they may notwithstanding require IRB review, since the definition of "human subject" at 45 CFR 46.102(f) includes living individuals about whom an investigator obtains identifiable private information for inquiry purposes.

In improver to beingness identifiable, the existing data must include "private information" in social club to institute enquiry involving human subjects. Individual information is divers every bit information which has been provided for specific purposes by an private and which the individual can reasonably expect volition not be made public (e.g., a medical or schoolhouse record). Data that contains identifiers and can exist accessed freely by the public (without special permission or application) is non "private" and the research therefore does non therefore involve human subjects. For example, a report involving simply analysis of the published salaries and benefits of public university presidents would non demand IRB review since this data is not individual.

Data analysis activities that come across the definition of research with human subjects may authorize for an exemption or require expedited or even full commission review. Whatever such project must receive IRB approving or a conclusion of exemption before the investigator accesses the information.

When does the secondary use of existing data not require review?
In general, the secondary analysis of existing data does not require IRB review when it does not fall within the regulatory definition of enquiry involving human subjects, as referenced higher up.

Note: Although the definition of a human subject includes but living individuals, thereby excluding decedents, there are cases in which the health information of the deceased and expiry information files may crave IRB review. For additional data and clarification on what constitutes human subject research, refer to Activities that Require IRB Review.

Public data: Public use information sets (such every bit portions of U.S. Demography data, data from the National Centre for Educational Statistics, National Center for Wellness Statistics, etc.) are data sets prepared with the intent of making them available for the public. The data bachelor to the public are not individually identifiable and therefore their analysis would not involve homan subjects.

De-identified information: If the dataset has been stripped of all identifying information and there is no way that it could be linked back to the subjects from whom it was originally collected (through a primal to a coding system or by any other means), its subsequent apply by the lead researcher or some other investigator would not constitute homo subjects research, since it is no longer identifiable. Identifiable means the identity of the subject is known or may be readily ascertained by the investigator or associated with the information. In full general, information is considered to be identifiable when it can be linked to specific individuals by the investigator(due south) either directly or indirectly through coding systems, or when characteristics of the information obtained are such that by their nature a reasonably knowledgeable person could ascertain the identities of individuals. Therefore, even though a dataset may have been stripped of direct identifiers (names, addresses, student ID numbers, etc.), it may still exist possible to identify an individual through a combination of other characteristics (due east.g., age, gender, ethnicity, and place of employment).

Example: Many pupil research projects involve secondary analysis of information that belongs to, or was collected by, their faculty advisor or another investigator. If the student is provided with a de-identified, non-coded data set, the use of the data does not constitute research with human subjects because there is no interaction with any individual and no identifiable individual data will exist used. The project does non therefore require IRB review.

Coded data: Secondary analysis of coded private data is not considered to be enquiry involving human being subjects and would non require IRB review if the investigator(southward) cannot readily ascertain the identity of the individual(s) to whom the coded private information pertains as a consequence of one of the following circumstances:

1. The investigators and the holder of the cardinal have entered into an agreement prohibiting the release of the cardinal to the investigators nether any circumstances, until the individuals are deceased (DHHS regulations for humans subjects enquiry do not require the IRB to review and approve this agreement);
2. There are IRB-approved written policies and operating procedures for a repository or data management eye that prohibit the release of the key to the investigator under whatsoever circumstances, until the individuals are deceased; or
3. There are other legal requirements prohibiting the release of the key to the investigators, until the individuals are deceased.

Note: If a student is analyzing coded data from a faculty counselor/sponsor who retains a primal, this would be human subjects inquiry, because the faculty sponsor is considered an investigator on the student'southward protocol, and tin can readily ascertain the identity of the subjects since he/she holds the cardinal to the coded data. If the student's piece of work fits within the scope of the initial protocol from which the dataset originates, the faculty sponsor (or investigator who holds the dataset) may wish to consider adding the student and his/her work to the original protocol by means of a modification request rather than having the student submit a new application for review.

Example: Researcher A plans to examine the relationships betwixt attending arrears hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiance disorder, and teen drug abuse using information collected by Agencies I, Two, and Three that work with "at risk" youth. The data will be coded and the agencies have entered into an agreement prohibiting release of the key to the researcher that could connect the data with identifiers. The apply of the data would not constitute research with human being subjects and does not require IRB review.

When is the secondary use of existing data non-exempt? If secondary analysis of existing data does involve inquiry with human being subjects and does not qualify for exempt status, the project must be reviewed either through expedited procedures or by the total committee. Over again, an IRB Awarding must be submitted.

Consent: Researchers using data previously collected under another study should consider whether the currently proposed research is a "compatible use" with what subjects agreed to in the original consent class. For non-exempt projects, a consent process description or justification for a waiver must be included in the research protocol. The UCI IRB may require that informed consent for secondary analysis is obtained from subjects whose data volition exist accessed.

"Restricted Apply Data": Certain agencies and research organizations release files to researchers with specific restrictions regarding their employ and storage. The records often comprise identifiers or extensive variables that combined might enable identification, even though this is not the intent of the researcher. Enquiry using these data sets most often requires expedited or full commission review.

For an explanation of the unlike categories of homo subjects research, meet Levels of Review.

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When do oral histories qualify as human subjects enquiry?

As part of the 2018 Common Rule, the Role for Human being Inquiry Protections has offically chosen out oral history projects as not meeting the definition of inquiry.  The revised Common Dominion at 45 CFR 46.102 states the following regarding the definition of "enquiry":

(l) Research means a systematic investigation, including research evolution, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Activities that meet this definition constitute research for purposes of this policy, whether or not they are conducted or supported under a program that is considered inquiry for other purposes. For example, some sit-in and service programs may include inquiry activities. For purposes of this part, the following activities are deemed not to be research:

(1) Scholarly and journalistic activities (e.g., oral history, journalism, biography, literary criticism, legal research, and historical scholarship), including the collection and utilize of information, that focus directly on the specific individuals about whom the data is collected.

(2) Public health surveillance activities, including the collection and testing of data or biospecimens, conducted, supported, requested, ordered, required, or authorized by a public health authority. Such activities are limited to those necessary to allow a public wellness authority to identify, monitor, assess, or investigate potential public health signals, onsets of illness outbreaks, or conditions of public health importance (including trends, signals, risk factors, patterns in diseases, or increases in injuries from using consumer products). Such activities include those associated with providing timely situational awareness and priority setting during the course of an event or crisis that threatens public health (including natural or man-made disasters).

(3) Collection and assay of information, biospecimens, or records past or for a criminal justice agency for activities authorized by law or courtroom order solely for criminal justice or criminal investigative purposes.

(four) Authorized operational activities (as determined by each agency) in support of intelligence, homeland security, defence force, or other national security missions.

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Protocol Questions

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Who needs to be listed on the protocol narrative?

All UCI researchers* engaged in homo subject research must be listed in the protocol narrative of the UCI IRB canonical inquiry projection if they will:

• intervene with subjects by performing research procedures, or by manipulating the environment for research purposes;
• participate in the recruitment and/or selection of subjects;
• participate in the informed consent procedure;
• collect or report subject identifiable information; or
• accept access to subject area identifiable study data.

If your research team should change one time the project is approved, you must submit a modification to your protocol calculation the new investigator(s) or removing those no longer involved.

*Constructive May 1, 2020,  As illustrated by the below Inquiry Personnel Estrus Map just Enquiry Personnel involved in the below activities illustrated in orange should be listed in the IRB Application and Protocol Narrative. All other Enquiry Personnel should be tracked in the Study Team Tracking Log. (Note: For more than data on IRB COI disclosure requirements, click here):

Function of Research Personnel	Minimal Take chances Protocol	Greater Than Minimal Risk Protocol
Admission to subject identifiable data including Protected Wellness Information (PHI) for screening/ determining eligibility	List just the LR and Co-Researcher(south) in the UCI IRB Application & Protocol Narrative. The LR is required to maintain a Study Squad log or something like to track Inquiry Personnel independently.
Recruiting subjects directly via phone, email or in person
Access to subject identifiable information which may include PHI for data drove purposes
Involvement in the informed consent process (i.e., explaining the study to prospective subject)
Performing research procedures that involve greater than minimal risk		List the LR, Co-Researcher(s) and Research Personnel in the UCI IRB Application & Protocol Narrative.
Interest in the estimation of report data
Finalization of the informed consent process (i.eastward., able to sign off as the individual obtaining consent)
Has a disclosable financial conflict of interest

Practice all non-UCI researchers (including collaborators) need to be listed?

Not-UCI researchers arenot listed in the IRB Application or Protocol Narrative; instead they are listed in Appendix U (when UCI serves equally the IRB of tape) or Appendix R (when the UCI IRB relies on another IRB) following the Unmarried IRB Reliance (sIRB) process.  For more data on the sIRB process, see HRP News & Declaration: When UCI Serves as the IRB of Record for Cooperative Enquiry: A Streamlined Process.

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Exercise I need to include my research staff or student researchers on the IRB Application?

Aye, if the piece of work performed on the research projection would allow the staff person or student researcher to have direct contact with subjects and/or admission to field of study identifiable information in the context of research, and so his or her name must be listed on the protocol, except every bit specified below*.

For staff personnel - if the individual's role on the projection is function of his or her regular paid duties (i.e. phlebotomist, x-ray technician) and involvement in the projection is limited to performing those duties without contributing to the inquiry endeavor, and so such individuals need non be listed as co-investigators or research personnel.

*For minimal risk studies (Exempt or Expedited), do not add UCI undergraduates as research personnel (RP) except when the research will be conducted outside California. All non-UCI undergraduates must be listed on an IRB Application.

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I accept submitted my IRB Application. At present what happens?

• The Pb Researcher and Authoritative Contact(s) will receive an e-mail memo assigning a Human Subjects number (i.e., HS #). This takes place usually inside 48 hours of electronic submission. Proceed this number as all IRB correspondence will reference the study championship and HS#.
• If y'all accept not already done then, please submit the applicable documentation to the Institutional Review Board, Office of Enquiry (OR).  Refer to How to Submit Electonic IRB Applications for Review for specific details on what documents must be submitted.
• Upon receipt of the required documentation, an authoritative review will exist conducted to ensure that all the necessary information is provided. If the application is in order information technology is assigned to an IRB Commission for review. If the awarding is incomplete (e.one thousand., consent course or survey missing) the Lead Researcher and Authoritative Contact (also Faculty Sponsor, if applicable) will receive an e-mail explaining how to correct the deficiency.
• Exempt and Expedited applications are reviewed by a subcommittee of IRB members. There are no submission deadlines for Exempt and Expedited e-IRB Applications. Exempt/Expedited reviews occur on a rolling basis.  IRB review typically occurs within 4-half dozen weeks of receipt of all required documentation.
• Full Committee applications are reviewed monthly. UCI has two biomedical IRBs and ane Social/Behavioral IRB. See ORA Calendar and Deadlines for full Committee meeting dates and deadlines.
• The IRB volition reviews the application and determine ane of 4 deportment:
  • A - Approval
  • M - Minor changes required
  • T - Tabled for re-review. The application requires significant clarifications and revisions
  • D - Disapproval
• For applications that receive a Committee determination of A - Approval, the Approving/Registration letter and stamped canonical documents are sent to the Lead Researcher within 3-five working days. Research studies should not begin until stamped approval documents are received.
• For applications that receive a Commission determination of Yard - Small Changes or T - Tabled for Re-Review: the Lead Researcher, Administrative Contact, and Kinesthesia Sponsor, when applicative, receive detailed comments from the IRB via e-postal service within x working days. Research studies must not begin until stamped approval documents are received.
• For applications that receive a Committee determination of D - Disapproval, the Lead Researcher, Authoritative Contact, and Faculty Sponsor, when applicable, receive detailed comments from the IRB via eastward-mail within 10 working days. Please note that only the full Committee can disapprove a protocol and disapprovals are rare.

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What is the fastest mode to find out what happened to my report at an IRB coming together?

Full Committee meeting results are posted to the web past 3 pm, the afternoon of each meeting. To become admission to these same-twenty-four hour period results for your submissions:

• visit Results of Full Committee Meeting,
• choose the appropriate coming together date, and
• locate your protocol number...information technology'south that easy!

Notation: This will provide y'all with the status of your protocol only. If your protocol is approved, approving documents will be sent to the Lead Researcher within 5 working days. If your protocol was not approved, detailed committee feedback will be sent straight to the Lead Researcher within ten working days of the meeting at which the protocol was reviewed.

Exempt and Expedited protocols are reviewed by a subcommittee of IRB members and the results are not posted to the spider web. Check with the Inquiry Protection staff for protocol status.

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Tin can I share my IRB protocol approval with colleagues working on like projects?

No. The IRB approves protocols with the understanding that the work will exist conducted merely past the investigators named in the protocol application. If your colleagues would like to piece of work on your research projection, y'all may modify your existing protocol to add them as co-investigators. Otherwise, they must utilize for their own IRB protocol approvals. For more data on how to modify an approved protocol, visit Modifications to the Protocol.

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How do I submit changes to a currently approved protocol?

To request blessing of a proposed modification, complete and submit the electronic Modification asking.

Upload two versions of all revised documents (i.east. protocol narrative, consent/assent forms, recruitment letters or ads, questionnaires, etc.) one version with the changes highlighted, one version without highlights. In addition include whatsoever new documents added equally a result of the proposed change (Sponsor Amendment, questionnaires, etc.)

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How are changes to an canonical protocol reviewed?

Changes to an approved protocol are submitted to the IRB via an electronic Modification Request (MOD). Changes are categorized as either pocket-size or significant. Small-scale changes practice non significantly affect the risks and benefits cess of the written report and do not substantially alter the specific aims or design of the study. Any change not considered a "small-scale" change is considered a "meaning" modify. Small changes may include personnel changes, changes to recruitment materials, addition of not-sensitive questions to interview or survey format, addition of a new recruitment site. Modest changes authorize for expedited reviewed while significant changes crave review past the full Committee.

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What is Seven-Year De Novo Continuing Review?

Every 6th year of protocol approval will require submission of updated protocol documentation along with the electronic Continuing Protocol Awarding. This requirement went into effect February 1, 2010.  Effective Autumn 2016, Seven-Year De Novo applies to both Biomedical and Social Behavioral Research involving greater than minimal risk. This includes submission of the post-obit:

• Updating the protocol narrative to the most current version of the protocol narrative bachelor at the IRB Forms page; and
• Ensuring that the consent form or study information canvas meets the about current consent/written report information sheet requirements. The consent templates are bachelor at the IRB Forms page and requirements are bachelor at the Informed Consent Training web page.
• Submitting all documentation for the protocol review such as whatsoever data collection instruments, recruitment, stimuli, etc. This includes re-submission of any applicable IRB appendices. The appendices are available for downloading under IRB Forms. Please review all the forms and submit any that are applicative. Even if the appendix was not available when the study was originally reviewed, it may nevertheless apply.

During the Committee's Seven-Year De Novo review(south), the Commission volition require that all documents be incorporated into the CURRENT UCI templates. This may involve disclosing new information that has not been previously requested and therefore, non previously reviewed by the Committee. As with any review, studies are subject to run across all current regulatory requirements, UC/ UCI policies and procedures. Lead Researchers should not assume that at a Seven-Year De Novo continuing review, nor a standard continuing review, volition receive automatic approval. Accordingly, Lead Researchers are asked to follow the submission timeline guidelines for Seven-Twelvemonth De Novo reviews, as well as standard standing reviews, to aid avoid a lapse in IRB approval.

Exceptions to the Seven-Year De Novo Review Requirement

There are three types of protocols do not require Seven-Year De Novo Review:

1. Standing review of inquiry where:
   • the enquiry is permanently closed to the enrollment of new subjects;
   • all subjects accept completed all inquiry-related interventions; and
   • the research remains active only for long-term follow-up of subjects; or
2. Standing review of research where the remaining research activities are limited to data analysis.
3. Protocols that involve no greater than minimal risk to man subjects (east.g., expedited, exempt).

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When should I submit a closing study to the IRB?

A study may be closed when all of the following apply:

• All subject recruitment and enrollment is consummate (i.e., no new subject field recruitment or enrollment are ongoing)
• All bailiwick specimens, records, data accept been obtained (i.e., no further collection of data/information from or about living individuals volition exist obtained)
• No farther contact with subjects is necessary (i.east., all interactions or interventions are complete and no further contact with enrolled subjects is necessary)
• Analysis of subject identifiable data, records, specimens are consummate (i.due east., use or access to subject identifiable data is no longer necessary. Notation: this includes review of source documents past written report sponsors).

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Informed Consent Questions

Who needs to exist listed on the informed consent document?

Only those individuals who will be involved in the informed consent process are to be listed on the consent form. Individuals who obtain informed consent must be appropriately qualified through their education, training or experience to obtain the legally-constructive informed consent from a subject. Run across the Informed Consent Process for more data.

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Who can consent on behalf of a subject field for participation in a enquiry report?

If an adult is unable to consent on his/her ain behalf due to cognitive or medical incapacity, federal regulations let researchers to obtain consent from a legally-authorized representative. CA Health & Safety Code 24178 defines the categories of individuals who are legally authorized in California to provide surrogate consent for research. For more data run into Obtaining Surrogate Consent. In lodge for a researcher to take the pick to obtain consent from a field of study's legally-authorized representative, the IRB must specifically approve the use of surrogate consent for a given protocol. If there is no legally-authorized representative, and the adult patient cannot consent, the individual may not go a man discipline. A minor is unable to consent on his/her own behalf. A parent or legal guardian usually provides permission for the pocket-sized to participate in research. The assent of the minor is typically obtained.

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Is an English language consent document okay to use when enrolling non-English-speaking subjects?

No. Study subjects are given a re-create of the consent to be used equally a reference document to reinforce their understanding of the study and, if desired, to consult with their doctor or family members well-nigh the study.

In gild to come across the requirements of federal regulations, the consent document must exist presented in language understandable to the bailiwick. When the prospective discipline is fluent in English, the consent document and process should be conducted in English.

However, when it is predictable that many of the study subjects will be non-English-speaking people, and it is anticipated that the consent process will likely exist conducted in a language other than English, the LR should submit a certified, translated consent form for IRB review afterward blessing of the English version.

A copy of the translated consent document must be given to each appropriate subject field. While a translator may be used to facilitate conversation with the subject field, ad hoc translation of the consent document cannot substitute for a written translation. See Not-English Speaking Participants for more information.

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Who must sign the consent class?

Federal regulations require that the written consent grade canonical past the IRB be signed and dated by the field of study or the subject's legally authorized representative (if approved past the IRB) at the time of consent. A copy should be given to the person signing the form.

Information technology is the IRB'south expectation that the person obtaining consent (the Lead Researcher, or another individual listed on the consent form), volition also sign and date the form, attesting to the informed consent chat. The LR should sign the course just if he or she was present for the consent process. In add-on for clinical research, a witness to the informed consent conversation must also sign and date the consent form. Come across the Informed Consent Process and Non-English language Speaking Participants for more information.

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Is informed consent required even if the data/specimens will exist collected from my friends and colleagues?

Yes. All research involving interaction with human subjects (including collection of specimens) requires informed consent regardless of who the subjects are. In some cases, written informed consent may be waived. Also, special rules utilize to recruiting students and staff from within one's own department. See Vulnerable Subject Populations for more than information.

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Can I have my research coordinator or clinic manager respond to requests from the IRB on my behalf?

No. Federal regulations require that the IRB must communicate straight with the Lead Researcher regarding protocol-related issues. Accordingly, all correspondence to the IRB must be submitted with the Lead Researcher's signature.

The Lead Researcher has overall responsibility for the behave of the research study, which includes responsibleness for the submission of protocols and other correspondence to the IRB. The IRB may return any protocol-related correspondence that is received without show of the Pb Researcher's approval.

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Tutorial Questions

I need to consummate HRP CITI and HIPAA Training.  What are the next steps?

No CITI Account/ Accept a UCInetID: If you do not already accept an account at Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), y'all would kickoff need to prepare one upward.  UCI students, staff, faculty and research personnel will be able to log in to the Collaborative Institutional Preparation Initiative (CITI) website using their UCINetID and password. When setting up your account, it is important that you apply your UCI email every bit your principal on this account considering that is the only way our database tin can receive updates regarding your training.For additional infromation on the registration process delight follow these pace-past-stride instructions.

Accept a CITI Business relationship:If you already take a CITI account from some other Institution, your prior courses may be eligible for transfer, log on to the CITI site and add UCI every bit an affiliate institution. CITI will review the modules you previously completed and the date(s) on which you took them. CITI volition enquire you lot to complete any modules required by UCI that were non required by your previous institution and/or modules that are no longer eligible to be transferred. Yous should also ensure that your profile for UCI includes your UCI email address as the IRB database links to CITI through an individual's UCInetID or his/her UCI email address. For additional data, please follow these step-by-step instructions.

No CITI Account/ No UCInetID: For new researchers without a UCINetID, please follow these step-by-footstep instructions. In improver, if you are working with a colleague outside of UCI who needs UCInetID access, you may exist able tosponsor your colleague for a temporary UCInetID. Only UCI kinesthesia or management-level staff members or their designees may sponsor someone.

CITI Coursework:

• UCI offers 2 versions of the Basic Human Research Training course: ane for Biomedical Investigators (which includes HIPAA) and one for Social & Behavioral Investigators (with an optional HIPAA module).  Individuals choose the form that best matches their research activities / and office.
• A CITI Refresher course is required every 5 years to ensure ongoing education nearly human being research protections. At that place are also two versions of the refresher course.
• The Basic and Refresher Courses require approximately two hours to complete.The modules may be completed over multiple sessions. You must complete a module and the related quiz before you log out of a session. If y'all do not complete the module, y'all will be required to take information technology once more.
• The minimum "passing" amass score is 80%.  A passing score is based on the whole course, and non on the individual modules within a course.  When your Grade Book gives you lot an option to print a "Completion Report," information technology ways you lot passed the class. A running tally is compiled in the Grade Volume. If you want to improve a score on a quiz, you may repeat the module and the quiz.  You can impress or download a Course Completion Report as testify of completion. You tin view or print your completion reports any time by logging into CITI.
• For more than information on required tutorials, encounter the Electronic Tutorials webpage. Also, to decide whether your enquiry involves PHI, please see the PHI (HIPAA) webpage.



How is CITI Completion Sent to UCI / Why is my CITI completion not showing upwardly in the IRB awarding?

UCI Researchers:

• If your CITI profile is accurate, your grade completion is sent to UCI via a nightly data transfer. You will need to expect for the adjacent day subsequently grade completion to add together yourself to an UCI Web-application.
• Your CITI profile must:

            1) Reflect your UCI Email as the primary email AND

            2) Chapter with UCI.

Non-UCI Researchers:

• You must upload a copy of theClass Completion Report with the UCI Spider web-application.

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I've forgotten my UCINetID password. How can I find out what it is?

UCINetID passwords are not known to anyone just you. If you've forgotten your password for your UCInetID, y'all need to have Part of Information technology (OIT) reset your password and re-activate your UCInetID. Run into the OIT website for data and instructions.

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How can I notice out which tutorials I've taken? How can I verify my study squad has completed the required tutorials?

There is a tutorial verification page on the ORA website. Anyone tin can verify whether a person performing enquiry has taken any of the electronic research tutorials for credit. To verify the completion of a tutorial for credit, get to Tutorial Verification and enter a get-go name, concluding proper name or both. The resulting folio tin be provided to the Function of Research or others who require verification of tutorial completion.

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I become the post-obit message when I effort logging on the tutorial: "Your Browser is not configured to take Cookies." How exercise I fix this problem?

You need to reconfigure your browser setting to allow cookies. If you use Internet Explorer go to: Tools--Internet Options-Privacy--Advanced Privacy Settings. If you need more aid with how to enable cookies, please check in with the computer back up person in your department.

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Post IRB Approving Questions

What documents are fabricated bachelor in the Document Depot?

During a transaction, a number of documents may be submitted to the IRB. Delight note that merely the following documents volition be fabricated available in the Document Depot:

• Current APP / CPA Approval Letter
• Electric current Modern Approval Letter of the alphabet
• HIPAA Forms
• Consent / Assent Forms (IRB stamped)
• Translated Consents / Assents (IRB stamped)
• Protocol Narrative (IRB stamped)
• Study Data Sheets (IRB stamped)
• Potential Participant Facing Recruitment Documents (IRB Stamped) **Please note: documents not used for recruitment of potential participants will non be stamped/ released**
• Data Abstraction Sheets (IRB stamped)
• Information Letters for Past Participants (IRB stamped)

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How do I submit changes to a currently canonical protocol?

To request blessing of a proposed modification, consummate and submit the electronic Modification request.

Upload 2 versions of all revised documents (i.e. protocol narrative, consent/assent forms, recruitment messages or ads, questionnaires, etc.) ane version with the changes highlighted, ane version without highlights. In add-on include whatever new documents added equally a issue of the proposed change (Sponsor Amendment, questionnaires, etc.)

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How are changes to an approved protocol reviewed?

Changes to an approved protocol are submitted to the IRB via an electronic Modification Request (MOD). Changes are categorized as either minor or pregnant. Pocket-sized changes do non significantly bear upon the risks and benefits assessment of the report and do not substantially change the specific aims or blueprint of the study. Any change non considered a "minor" alter is considered a "pregnant" change. Pocket-sized changes may include personnel changes, changes to recruitment materials, addition of non-sensitive questions to interview or survey format, improver of a new recruitment site. Minor changes qualify for expedited reviewed while significant changes require review past the full Commission.

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What is 7-Twelvemonth De Novo Standing Review?

Every 6th year of protocol blessing will require submission of updated protocol documentation along with the electronic Continuing Protocol Application. This requirement went into effect February 1, 2010.  Effective Fall 2016, Seven-Twelvemonth De Novo applies to both Biomedical and Social Behavioral Inquiryinvolving greater than minimal run a risk. This includes submission of the post-obit:

• Updating the protocol narrative to the well-nigh current version of the protocol narrative available at the IRB Forms page; and
• Ensuring that the consent form or study data sail meets the most current consent/study information sail requirements. The consent templates are available at the IRB Forms folio and requirements are available at the Informed Consent Grooming web page.
• Submitting all documentation for the protocol review such as any data collection instruments, recruitment, stimuli, etc. This includes re-submission of any applicable IRB appendices. The appendices are available for downloading under IRB Forms. Please review all the forms and submit any that are applicable. Even if the appendix was not bachelor when the study was originally reviewed, it may still employ.

During the Committee'due south Seven-Year De Novo review(s), the Committee will crave that all documents be incorporated into the Current UCI templates. This may involve disclosing new data that has not been previously requested and therefore, non previously reviewed by the Committee. As with any review, studies are field of study to meet all current regulatory requirements, UC/ UCI policies and procedures. Lead Researchers should non presume that at a Seven-Year De Novo continuing review, nor a standard continuing review, will receive automatic approval. Appropriately, Lead Researchers are asked to follow the submission timeline guidelines for 7-Year De Novo reviews, too as standard continuing reviews, to help avoid a lapse in IRB approving.

Exceptions to the 7-Twelvemonth De Novo Review Requirement

There are 3 types of protocols practise not require Seven-Year De Novo Review:

1. Continuing review of research where:
   • the enquiry is permanently closed to the enrollment of new subjects;
   • all subjects have completed all inquiry-related interventions; and
   • the research remains active only for long-term follow-up of subjects;or
2. Continuing review of research where the remaining research activities are limited to data analysis.
3. Protocols that involve no greater than minimal take chances to human subjects (e.yard., expedited, exempt).

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When should I submit a closing written report to the IRB?

A written report may be closed whenall of the following utilise:

• All subject recruitment and enrollment is complete (i.e., no new subject recruitment or enrollment are ongoing)
• All subject area specimens, records, data have been obtained (i.e., no further collection of data/data from or about living individuals will be obtained)
• No further contact with subjects is necessary (i.e., all interactions or interventions are complete and no further contact with enrolled subjects is necessary)
• Analysis of subject identifiable data, records, specimens are complete (i.e., use or access to subject identifiable data is no longer necessary. Annotation: this includes review of source documents by study sponsors).

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Source: https://services-web.research.uci.edu/compliance/human-research-protections/researchers/irb-faqs.html

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