Essay Sample on Online Therapy

Introduction

You are invited to take part in research. You must be 18 years or older. Your participation is optional. If you decide to take part in this research, you will be asked to sign a consent form. After you sign it, you are free to leave at any time and without giving any reason. Please take your time to read the information below carefully and ask the researcher if you have a question or you need additional information. You will be given a copy of this form.

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Purpose of the Research

In this research, we are trying to learn how online therapy can increase access to services that can help you fight addiction to drugs and alcohol.

Research Processes

You will be asked to sign up to an app saved on your smartphone. Here you will take part in therapy sessions that will take only two hours per week for the next 12 weeks. You will access the therapy from the comfort of your home. You will be asked some simple questions at the end of each session.

Possible Risks and Discomforts

There are no expected risks because of your participation. When you feel some discomfort at answering any questions, please feel free to ask not to fill them.

Benefits

You will receive free online drug abuse therapy that will help you fight addiction.

Confidentiality

Any of your information collected in this research will not be given or shown to anyone without your permission. But, this is except where the law requires the researcher to report specific cases like suicide risk (Largent, 2016). Your information will be saved under a fake name to protect it.

Consent

I have read and, I understood the information. I have also had the opportunity to ask questions. I know that my participation is voluntary and that I am free to leave at any time, without giving a reason. I understand that I will be given a copy of this consent form. I voluntarily agree to take part in this research.

Conclusion

According to Larson, Foe, and Lally (2015), increased length and complexity of written consent forms are barriers to participant understanding of the research. To tackle these barriers, it is crucial for the researcher to maintain the readability level of the form at an 8th grade level. Based on this and the Flesh-Kincaid results, the consent form for my research project has heeded to this requirement. From the results, children between the age of 13 and 14 years can understand it easily.

References

Largent, E. A. (2016). Recently proposed changes to legal and ethical guidelines governing human subjects research. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 3(1), 206. DOI:10.1093/jlb/lsw001

Larson, E., Foe, G., & Lally, R. (2015). Reading level and length of written research consent forms. Clinical and translational science, 8(4), 355-356. DOI: 10.1111/cts.12253