Applying Process for Ethical Review

Instructions:

Following are to be submitted.

1. Application Form: Part I - 04 copies
2. Application Form: Part II - 04 copies
3. Application Form: Part III - 02 copies
4. The complete research proposal including the justification, objectives, and methods in detail - 04 copies
5. Information sheet for research participants (Should be provided in all three languages – Sinhala, Tamil, and English) - 04 copies
6. Consent forms (Should be provided in all three languages – Sinhala, Tamil, and English) - 04 copies
7. Data collection booklets/forms/questionnaires. (Should be provided in all three languages – Sinhala, Tamil, and English if self-administered by research participants - 04 copies
8. Brief CV of Principal Investigator/ Supervisor - 04 copies
9. A soft copy of all above documents in email to ercofficethk@gmail.com. - 1 copy

• All above excluding 3. & 9. Should be bound into 04 separate folders to be distributed to reviewers. No. 3. & 9. to be handed over separately.
• For research protocols which have been submitted before but need to "review with major modifications", need to submit all the above documents with the same number of copies. Also, a document that will list all the changes between the original document and the presently submitted document need to be submitted.
• All documents listed above excluding 3. & 9. and copies of lists of changes Should be bound into 04 separate folders to be distributed to reviewers. No. 3. & 9. to be handed over separately.
• For research protocols which have been submitted before but need to "review with minor modifications", need to submit all the above documents with one copy each except 3. where two copies need to be submitted.Also, a document that will list all the changes between the original document and the presently submitted document need to be submitted.
• All documents listed above excluding 3. & 9. and a copy of the list of changes Should be bound into a folder to be distributed to reviewers. No. 3. & 9. to be handed over separately.
• Applications & All documents are to be submitted before 10 am, of the first Tuesday of each month to be Reviewed in the same month.
• Institutional Ethical Review Committee is convened on the last Friday of each month.
• At least two months are required for ethics review & granting ethics clearance for submissions done for the first time & submissions for review with major modifications Submissions for review with minor modifications may take a shorter duration.