1. The P CITI completion report for the Social and Behavioral Resea9.rch Investigator training. See theIRB website for instructions on accessing the CITI portal.
2. Please provide a brief (350-500 word) summary of your research project, including background and rationale for your study. Be sure to include in your description what kinds of data you are planning to collect as part of your research (e.g., surveys, interviews, observations, etc.)
3. In non-technical language, please describe your research questions or hypotheses
4. Please include a concise literature review pertaining to the proposed research study. Please provide a list of references for all sources cited in this review.
This section should include a Literature Review, which surveys publications (books, journals and sometimes conference papers) on work that has already been done on the topic of your research paper. It should only include studies that have direct relevance to your research.
include the type of data you are planning to collect.
5. In non-technical language, address the following:
Your hypothesis should be something that you can actually test, what's called a testable hypothesis. In other words, you need to be able to measure both "what you do" and "what will happen."
Most of the time a hypothesis is written like this: "If _____[I do this] _____, then _____[this]_____ will happen." Your hypothesis should always explain what you expect to happen during the course of your research.
6.Who will the participants be? How many participants? (Required)
Who are you interviewing or surveying?
7. What is your inclusion criteria for screening participants? (Required)
How will you screen applicants?
8. Where will participants be recruited?
9.Recruitment Materials
10. State the study activities in chronological order. Describe both the activities conducted by members of the research team and the activities of research participants.
(e.g., screening, survey, taking a test, answering questions in an interview, completing a specific task, tasks on a computer, running on a treadmill, debriefing, etc.) If videotaping, photographs, or audio-taping will take place, explain how and why recording will occur.
What are the steps you will use for administering your survey?
11. Please attach your research instrument, such as the survey or interview questions you will use to collect data.
12. Recruitment Materials (Required)
How are you going to recruit participants?.