Informed consent

Informed consent

We have an updated informed consent procedure for research reviewed by the Ethical Committee of Social Sciences (ECSS) as of November 2025.

The following changes have been implemented:

• Generic templates for RU/Faculty of Social Sciences, with shorter and better understandable texts, available via ECSS website
• Based on these templates researchers compile their own study-specific general information brochure and consent forms
• Updates to the screening form and Adverse Events Procedure

The source documents:

• File:Informed consent slides.pdf of the information session.
• File:Informed consent instructions.docx for completing the table.
• File:Informed consent template.docx information document and consent form, Ethics Committee Social Sciences, Version 1.0 November 2025 

Feel free to reach out to Miriam Kos in case of any questions.

Implementation

Since this procedure no longer uses standard forms supplied by the Institute, you will have to include the information brochure and consent form in your own experiment. For two common online experiment systems (Limesurvey and jsPsych) we give an example how to include such a form here.

Feel free to contact me for questions.

Limesurvey example

Demo survey for the informed consent form with all elements. For anonymous studies all questions can be removed. For non-anonymous studies the first questions must be present. Note that only the first question is validated at the moment. You can validate the second question as well for medical studies. There is no Dutch version yet.