Assignment task: Upholding transparency during the research process is important because it helps ensure that the interests and well-being of participants are not hindered by other competing interests. Which of the following statements describes how best to maintain transparency?
Choose the best answer.
- Declaring to the REC any relationships that you as an investigator, or your spouse, may have with the sponsor of the trial.
- Refusing a contract as a consultant to the sponsor while acting as an investigator for a trial funded by the same sponsor.
- Adding a statement in the consent documents to inform participants that the trial is funded by a private pharmaceutical company.
- All of the above.