The full citation for this paper is: Bull S, Farsides B, Ayele FT: Tailoring information provision and consent processes to research contexts: the value of rapid assessments. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics 2012, 7(1):37-52.


appropriate ways of providing information to minimize the risk of stigmatizing vulnerable research populations; research participants’ views about the most important information to provide about research and their understandings of research; and perceived constraints upon reaching voluntary decisions about participation. These insights demonstrate that rapid assessments are a relatively quick and inexpensive intervention that can provide valuable information to assist in the tailoring of information provision and consent processes to research context while maintaining and enhancing participants’ fundamental protections.

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