Final Report: Strengthening Community Research in ... - Ninti One

c) 2. Plan and prepareInformed consent is an important rule for researchers to follow. Informed consent is the tool that ensures thatpeople participating in research make a free choice to do the research or not. Informed consent ensures that theyknow exactly who the research report is for; are certain the information they provide will be kept safe, private andprotected; and know who to contact to raise any concerns they have. Informed consent requires the researchers tobe very clear about the right of participants not to participate or to pull out of the research.The Ntaria researchers wrote and recorded a Western Arrarnta version of the Plain English informed consentform to use when they were undertaking the research. These ‘scripts’ had to be rehearsed so that the researcherswere confident about what to explain, and could carry through the same process over and over again withparticipants.For this cycle of the research, focus group discussions and photo elicitation were selected as the methods to bringthe topic to the groups. The community participants were asked to think about what the survey on safe drivingfound, and identify why it showed a large number of people travelling in unsafe vehicles.c) 3. Doing the researchFinal Report: Strengthening Community Research in Remote Service Delivery at Ntaria 47