What Are the Costs of Taking Part in This Study?
There are no costs to you for taking part in this study. All the study costs, including any study tests, supplies, and procedures related directly to this study, will be paid for by the study.
Will There Be Compensation for Participating?
If you participate in this study, you will be compensated $50 per interview and $50 per focus group for your time. You will receive the incentive as an e-gift card or e-prepaid visa via email within two weeks of completing your interview and/or focus group. If you have any questions related to compensation, please contact Jenny Newlon at jenny@birthcontrolpharmacist.com, 828-412-0984.
What About Confidentiality?
To the extent allowed by law, every effort will be made to keep your personal information confidential. However, information from this study may be looked at by the research team, the institution, California, the sponsor/funding agency supporting this study (National Institutes of Health), and those responsible for overseeing the conduct of research. This may include representatives from the federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) or other regulatory agencies, the Institutional Review Board (IRB), and the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York. While these parties are aware of the need to keep your information confidential, total confidentiality cannot be guaranteed. The results of this study may be presented at meetings or in publications; however, you will not be identified in these presentations and/or publications.
If you take part in this study, you will be assigned a unique subject code to help protect your privacy. Your study records and study samples will be labeled with this code that does not directly identify you. The study site staff will securely store the linking code between your name and study information.
Your email address will be collected for study related communication, such as interview and focus group scheduling and incentive distribution. Your email address will not be shared with anyone outside of study team members responsible for study related communications. No one at the National Institutes of Health will be able to see your survey or even know whether you participated in this study. Study findings will be presented only in summary form and your email address will not be used in any report. While the investigator(s) will keep your information confidential, there are some risks of data breaches when sending information over the internet that are beyond the control of the investigator(s).
This research is covered by a Certificate of Confidentiality from the NIH and NDA. The researchers with this Certificate may not disclose or use information, documents, or biospecimens that may identify you in any federal, state, or local civil, criminal, administrative, legislative, or other action, suit, or proceeding, or be used as evidence, for example, if there is a court subpoena, unless you have consented for this use. Information, documents, or biospecimens protected by this Certificate cannot be disclosed to anyone else who is not connected with the research except, if there is a federal, state, or local law that requires disclosure (such as to report child abuse or communicable diseases but not for federal, state, or local civil, criminal, administrative, legislative, or other proceedings, see below); if you have consented to the disclosure, including for your medical treatment; or if it is used for other scientific research, as allowed by federal regulations protecting research subjects. For additional information about CoCs see https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/human-subjects/coc/nih-funded-research.
