If a study you are conducting includes procedures and/or populations that are listed in the menus below, click on appropriate items to view corresponding guidelines for protecting the rights of human subjects.
Procedures
- Adult Subjects with Cognitive Impairment and Reduced Decision-Making Capacity
- Audiotaping and Videotaping
- Additional Review (China, Russia or Saudi Arabia)
- COUHES Policy for Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk
- Data Handling When Subject Withdraws
- Data Protection
- Data Sharing
- Electronic Consent
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Research Activities
- Guidance on Use of Protected Health Information for Research Purposes
- Guidelines for Single IRB
- Guidance for Student Research and Class Projects
- Including Women of Childbearing Potential in Research and Pregnancy Testing
- Oral History Activities
- Passive Parental Consent
- Payments and Costs
- Private Data, Human Specimens and Cells
- Research Involving Deception
- Research Involving non-MIT Collaborators
- Research on Mental Health Topics
- Research that may affect privacy of healthcare information
- Surveys, Questionnaires and Interviews
Populations
- Minors
- MIT Students and Lab Members as Subjects
- MRI and Pregnancy
- Non-English Speakers
- Other Vulnerable Subjects
- Pregnant Women
- Students as Subjects
- Subjects with limited comprehension
- Subjects with limited ability to read, hear, or see
Resources for conducting research involving human subjects