Explanation of Procedures Clause Samples
The "Explanation of Procedures" clause defines the obligation to clearly outline the steps, methods, or processes that will be followed in the execution of an agreement or project. This clause typically requires one or both parties to provide detailed descriptions of how specific tasks will be performed, such as timelines for deliverables, approval processes, or technical methodologies. By mandating transparency and specificity in operational procedures, the clause helps prevent misunderstandings and disputes by ensuring all parties have a shared understanding of how work will be carried out.
Explanation of Procedures. If you take part in this study, you will allow a member of the study staff to go into your medical chart and record a list of the health problems you have (e.g., diabetes, high blood pressure) and the specific diagnosis that caused you to come to CR (e.g., a heart attack). This information will be kept in a confidential chart. If you choose to participate in this study, you will be asked to attend a baseline assessment visit at either the WCDRC or CR where you will complete questionnaires about your physical activity, eating behaviors, mood, health, and strategies you have used to lose weight as well as a demographic questionnaire. Some of these questionnaires will be on the computer, and some will be a pencil and paper survey. You will complete a very brief assessment of your cognition; this assessment feels like completing a few puzzles and word games. Your height and weight will also be measured. You will also wear an armband on your upper arm for one week during the majority of your daily activities. This armband will be sized to fit you comfortably. It tracks your physical activity while you are awake. It will not interfere with any devices in your body, particularly devices that affect your heart (e.g., implantable cardioverter defibrillator). All of the information that you provide or that is taken from your medical chart will be kept confidential. Please see Section 9 of this form for additional details on the ways the research staff will maintain your privacy. This first visit will take up to 90 minutes. You will be asked to return to the WCDRC or CR for an assessment visit 3 months into the 6-month treatment program, and again at the end of the 6-month treatment program. Alternatively, you may complete the assessments online via a secure link. In that case, you will need to either receive the armband in the mail and send it back to us, or pick it up and drop it off. Again, we will accommodate you based on your preference. At these assessment visits, you will again complete questionnaires and have your weight measured. You will also wear the armband for one week prior to these visits. We will mail the armband to you ahead of time, or you are welcome to meet a member of the research staff to pick it up if that is your preference. You will receive $25 for completing the 3-month visit, and you will receive $50 for completing the 6-month assessment visit. These two visits will take up to 75 minutes each. Free parking adjacent to the building is availa...
Explanation of Procedures. To be included in the study, you must meet the following inclusion criteria:
a. You are licensed as a psychologist, counselor, or social worker.
b. Your license allows you to diagnose psychiatric disorders. If you do not meet these criteria, you will not be included in this study, and we will notify you via an email. If you qualify and are willing to participate, you will be taken to the questionnaire after signing and submitting this informed consent.
1. A demographics questionnaire: these are questions about you, including education history, type of license held, and setting in which you practice.
2. Three vignettes: presented individually for which you will provide a diagnosis.
Explanation of Procedures. If authorized by the Sheriff’s Office, Consultant shall explain autopsy procedures and respond to questions during the autopsy.
Explanation of Procedures. Participation will involve a screening conversation via telephone and mail to determine study eligibility. You have already completed this screening. If you and your child are eligible, you are now being asked to sign this consent form. This consent form and assent form for children will be explained to you by a member of the research team. Should you wish to participate, you and your child will be asked to sign these documents indicating your willingness to participate and complete an in-person interview and several questionnaires to further determine eligibility. If your child is eligible and you have agreed to participate, you will be asked to stay at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center for approximately 2 hours. You will receive a detailed study explanation, provide informed consent, complete study questionnaires, and be trained in how to complete cognitive tasks and questionnaires using a Web-based application (app) loaded onto a personal or study-loaned smartphone. You and your child will have their height and weight measured and complete assessments of eating behaviors, cognitive functioning, and psychiatric comorbidities. We would like to record the interview for training purposes, but you can decline to have them recorded. I GIVE THE RESEARCHERS PERMISSION TO AUDIO/VIDEORECORD THE INTERVIEWS WITH MY CHILD □ YES □ NO Signature of parent/guardian* Date and Time when signed Signature of parent/guardian* Date and Time when signed You will be given the opportunity to review the questionnaires before they are administered to your child, and to withdraw your consent for your child to complete any or all of the questionnaires if you choose. In addition, you or your child will be asked to complete a questionnaire which addresses how physically developed your child has become, in terms of the emergence and growth of hair around the genitals. This is called ▇▇▇▇▇▇ staging, allowing the doctor and the researchers to understand at what point in physical growth towards an adult body a child or adolescent has reached. Eligible children will be asked to complete questionnaires and cognitive tasks on their personal smartphone or a study-loaned smartphone over the following 15 days. Your child will be prompted 3-5 times a day randomly to complete these questionnaires or tasks; however, these prompts will not interfere with the school day. The research team will work with each participant’s school schedule to ensure prompts are not timed during their spe...
Explanation of Procedures. This study will involve the completion of a brief survey using a computer or by phone about one month from now to collect information about any alcohol or drug screening and related services your child may have received during or after their hospital stay. Today, you and your child will be asked to provide contact information so that we can reach your child to complete this survey. This information will take 5 minutes to collect and will not interfere with your child’s clinical care. About one month from now research staff at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, RI (who is conducting the follow up surveys for all sites) will contact your child and ask them via email or text message to complete a brief (5-10 minutes) survey using the internet. If your child cannot access the internet, we can telephone them and do the survey over the phone. Your child’s answers to the questionnaire will not be shared with you. Your child will receive a $20 gift card for completing this survey. We will also review your child’s medical records from this hospital stay only to see if any alcohol or drug screening and related services were provided.
Explanation of Procedures. If you take part in this study you will:
1. Complete Stage 1 baseline survey about your age, sex, gender, HIV status, sexual behavior, and other basic information about you. After your baseline you will be randomly assigned to one of two interventions: Group A Strength Based Case Management (SBCM) Intervention: Where you will meet with a trained case manager one on one to help you obtain Truvada (from now on referred to as “PrEP pills”) from The ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Hospital STD and PrEP Clinic. Group B Standard of Care: You will be provided with a referral to The ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Hospital STD and PrEP Clinic
2. Your first clinical appointment at The ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Hospital PrEP Clinic will include: Blood drawing: You will be asked to provide a blood sample (two teaspoons) from a vein in your arm for laboratory tests. This blood sample will be used for testing for PrEP drug levels, HIV and other STDs. We may also collect urine samples and swabs from your rectum and throat to test for STDs. A review of your medical records including medical history, HIV testing, and other STD testing. If your results show that you are HIV-positive and/or infected with hepatitis B, you will not proceed to Stage 2 and you will be directly referred for treatment. If you begin PrEP, as part of routine clinical care, you will see the doctor every three months for a check-up to look for any side effects and test you for HIV. In addition to any blood samples the doctor may take to test for HIV and side effects, we may request blood and hair samples to check for PrEP levels in your blood as part of the study.
Explanation of Procedures. If you decide that you are interested in taking part in this study, the next step is that you will complete a baseline assessment. As part of this assessment, we will measure your height and weight and you will be asked to complete a series of questionnaires, have a brief interview with study staff, wear an armband for 10 days, and answer surveys on your smartphone for 10 days. After completing each of these steps and if it is determined that you are eligible for the study, you will be asked to complete a 12-week weight loss program in which you will attend weekly, group-based meetings. Following this, you will receive one of two interventions aimed at improving long-term weight loss outcomes: cooking/dietary instruction classes or yoga (described in further detail below). Following the 12-week weight loss program, you will be randomly assigned “randomized into one of these study groups. Randomization means that you are put into a group by chance. It is like flipping a coin. Which group you are put in is done by a computer. Neither you nor the researcher will choose what group you will be in. You will have an equal chance of being in either of the two groups. Further, you will be asked to complete assessments at baseline, 12 weeks, 24 weeks, and 1 year which will be used to evaluate these programs. The assessment visits and weight loss programs are described in detail below.
Explanation of Procedures. Two sets of questions are needed to complete your part of this project. The first questions are included with this form. Students will also be contacted by telephone and asked more questions one year after leaving high school.
Explanation of Procedures. Your child will be randomly assigned (like by the flip of a coin) by a computer to one of two groups. Neither you nor the researcher can decide which group you will be assigned to. For both groups, this study will involve your child’s participation in a brief survey and in-person session here in the emergency department (ED), followed by text messages for 8 weeks. The in-person session will be conducted right now, before you leave the ED, and will take about 20-30 minutes. In the session, we will go over with your child either the way that thoughts, emotions, and behavior work together (GROUP 1), or ways to improve their use of healthy behavior like seatbelts and nutrition (GROUP 2). For both groups, we will also go over the text messaging system. During the session with your child, we will ask you to step out of the room and you will be given some handouts to read. If your child is discharged from the emergency department before finishing the in-person session, we will move to a private treatment room to finish it. It should not take more than 20-30 minutes to finish. The session will be digitally recorded for quality purposes. Recordings of the session will be kept confidential and will be stored in a locked file in a locked research office. All identifying information will be destroyed after the study is complete. The audio recordings will be destroyed 5 years after the close of the study. The purpose is to evaluate the performance of the study staff, not you. GROUP 1 participants will receive daily text messages that will provide skills on managing stressful situations. Each day, GROUP 1 participants will be automatically sent one text-message question about their day, followed by a text message just for your child. The text messages will provide skills on managing stressful situations. Although no one will be monitoring the text messages, our program can send extra messages on certain topics (“MOOD” and “FIGHT”) if your child needs them. GROUP 2 participants will receive regular text messages on topics related to diet and nutrition. Messages will be sent to your child’s cell phone using an automated computerized system developed by an outside company, Reify Health. Only members of this research team will see your child’s text messages and responses. For both groups, we will contact your child to complete a follow-up survey and brief interview (over the phone, in person, or over the internet) at 8 weeks and again at 16 weeks (since the start of the stu...
Explanation of Procedures. If you take part in this study, you will be randomized to either a 12- week exercise program or a delayed exercise condition, meaning that you cannot choose which group you are placed in (see below for additional details explaining both conditions). You will also be asked to complete assessment visits before the start of the study, half way through the study, and at the end of the study and you will be compensated for the 6-week and 12-week assessments. The following outlines all study procedures.