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The inclusion of non-English speaking participants must be previously approved by COMIRB. If you anticipate enrolling non-English speakers, address recruitment, consent, and conduct of study visits with non-English speaking participants in your protocol and IRB application. You will need to decide whether you will translate the consent form or use a short form consent. If you use a short form, submit an English stand alone HIPAA authorization to COMIRB for prior approval.

A short form may be used up to three times in the same language. If a fourth participant is to be enrolled, the entire consent form must be translated. The translated consent form must be submitted to COMIRB for approval. Options for translation services can be found here.

When you wish to obtain short form consent from a non-English speaking participant, download the appropriate translations of the short form and the stand-alone HIPAA authorization (if necessary). Add study information to the top of the short form. Edit the HIPAA Authorization to match the approved English version for your study.

Translated Short Forms and HIPAA authorizations are listed below. If you do not find a short form in the language you need, contact COMIRB. We can usually provide a certified translation within three business days. If a translation is needed sooner than this, you will have to get the English short form translated into the appropriate language.

For more information, please review the COMIRB Short Form Consent Process Guidance.

 

Short FormHIPAA Authorization
Amharic Short FormAmharic HIPAA Authorization
Arabic Short FormArabic HIPAA Authorization
Bosnian Short FormBosnian HIPAA Authorization
Burmese Short FormBurmese HIPAA Authorization
Chinese Simplified Short FormChinese Simplified HIPAA Authorization

Chinese Traditional Short Form

Chinese Traditional HIPAA Authorization
Chuukese Short FormChuukese HIPAA Authorization
Dari Short FormDari HIPAA Authorization
Darija Short FormDarija HIPAA Authorization

English Short Form

English HIPAA Authorization
Farsi Short Form                               Farsi HIPAA Authorization

French Short Form

French HIPAA Authorization
Fulani Short FormFulani HIPAA Authorization
German Short FormGerman HIPAA Authorization
Greek Short FormGreek HIPAA Authorization

Haitian Creole Short Form

Haitian Creole HIPAA Authorization
Hausa Short FormHausa HIPAA Authorization
Hindi Short FormHindi HIPAA Authorization
Italian Short FormItalian HIPAA Authorization
Japanese Short FormJapanese HIPAA Authorization
Karen Short FormKaren HIPAA Authorization
Khmer Short FormKhmer HIPAA Authorization
Kirundi Short FormKirundi HIPAA Authorization
Kinyarwanda Short FormKinyarwanda HIPAA Authorization
Korean Short FormKorean HIPAA Authorization

Laotian Short Form

Laotian HIPAA Authorization
Levantine Arabic (Shami) Short FormLevantine Arabic (Shami) Short Form
Mongolian Short FormMongolian HIPAA Authorization
Oromo Short FormOromo HIPAA Authorization
Nepali Short FormNepali HIPAA Authorization
Pashto Short FormPashto HIPAA Authorization
Polish Short FormPolish HIPAA Authorization
Portuguese Short FormPortuguese HIPAA Authorization
Punjabi Short FormPunjabi HIPAA Authorization
Romanian Short FormRomanian HIPAA Authorization
Russian Short FormRussian HIPAA Authorization
Serbian Short FormSerbian HIPAA Authorization
Somali Short FormSomali HIPAA Authorization
Spanish Short FormSpanish HIPAA Authorization
Swahili Short FormSwahili HIPAA Authorization
Tagalog Short FormTagalog HIPAA Authorization
Thai Short FormThai HIPAA Authorization
Tigrinya Short FormTigrinya HIPAA Authorization
Ukrainian Short FormUkrainian HIPAA Authorization
Urdu Short FormUrdu HIPAA Authorization
Uzbek Short FormUzbek HIPAA Authorization

Vietnamese Short Form

Vietnamese HIPAA Authorization
Wolof Short FormWolof HIPAA Authorization

 

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