All research studies involving human participants conducted by NTU faculty, staff, or students as part of his or her university responsibilities are subject to IRB review and must be submitted to the IRB.  This includes research that involves survey instruments, such as questionnaires.  Feel free to contact our office if you have any questions on what you should submit.

You have a couple of options:
–  We recommend that all students use our website application form to submit
applications.
–  If you are unable to use access the website, you can get a physical copy from Kashayla Smith (k.smith@navajotech.edu)

Once the IRB office receives the completed application, we send it to the IRB Chair who has 10 working days to review. If the Chair decides the application needs full review, the process could take up to a month.

All applications are emailed to the Chair with the PI (principle investigator) and faculty sponsor cc’d on the message.  This email is sent off within a day of the office receiving the application, so if you do not receive that email after that initial time period, please contact us.

The following IRB applications were approved by the PIs to be used as examples. These applications are to be used for example purposes only and may not be copied or referenced in another IRB application. All personal identifying information has been redacted.

– Example from a COE investigator
– Example from a CHPS investigator

Confidential: Participants provide personal information that can be linked to the results. Only the researcher and those collecting the data have access to the identifying information, none of which can be published or shared in the results.

Anonymous: No personally identifying information is collected, so it is impossible to know who participated, and especially impossible to link any response to any individual.

Yes. All PIs and Co-PIs must complete either CITI or NIH training. Both are free to faculty and students.

You must have IRB approval before any data collection can begin. This means you should not contact any potential participants before the IRB has approved your study.

Do not collect signed informed consent until you have IRB approval.

Special populations are groups that may need special protections or considerations, such as: pregnant women, human fetuses, prisoners, children, individuals with disabilities, individuals in institutions such as nursing homes, economically disadvantaged individuals, and racial or ethnic minorities.

If your project involves one of these populations, you should take extra consideration in filling out your application: How might you adapt your project to ensure you maintain the rights of an individual in one of these groups? Is there any part of your study that might be considered manipulative or abuse your position as researcher/teacher/etc.?