Informed Consent
Participation in this survey is completely voluntary. With surveys of this nature, there is always the risk for breach of privacy and confidentiality. The TBRS Community has implemented measures to decrease this risk, including only allowing trained staff to analyze results, requiring an application from researchers to access data, and only releasing de-identified data to researchers. The data obtained through this survey will be stored on a secure system. However, there is still a small risk associated with breach of privacy and confidentiality that participantss should be aware of. Re-identification is also possible; although researchers will be required to agree not to attempt to re-identify patients, and release information will be de-identified, this is still a possibility in a small, rare disease community that participants should be aware of.
Proceeding to fill out this survey serves as consent for participation in it.
Should participants have any questions regarding this process or the study, please contact:
Kit Church, Research Coordinator, kit@tbrsyndrome.org