It involves understanding the person's goals and concerns, and discussing with the person (or their substitute decision-maker) their options for treatment, the potential outcomes (positive, negative and neutral), risks and benefits and what this might mean for them.
Obtaining informed consent in medicine is a process that should include describing the proposed intervention, emphasizing the patient's role in decision-making, discussing alternatives to the proposed intervention, discussing the risks and benefits of the proposed intervention, and eliciting the patient's preference, ...
Informed Consent for Psychology Research Purpose: Inform the participants about the purpose of the research, the anticipated duration of the study, and the procedures that will be used. Right to withdraw: Tell participants that they have the right to decline to participate in the study.
Consent should be obtained before the participant enters the research (prospectively), and there must be no undue influence on participants to consent. The minimum requirements for consent to be informed are that the participant understands what the research is and what they are consenting to.
For an ethically valid consent, information provided to a research subject should include, but not be limited to: information about the health condition for which the research is proposed; details of the nature and purpose of the research; the expected duration of the subject's participation; a detailed description of ...