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Exempt Category 3: Benign Behavioral Interventions

The detailed description of these exemption requirements can be found in the 2018 Code of Federal Regulations at 45CFR46.104(d)(3). This category isn’t very straightforward, so researchers may have questions …

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“Can my human subjects research plan be defined as a benign behavioral intervention and be classified under exemption category 3?”

In order to help you determine whether your proposed human research project might qualify for this brand new exemption, we’ve created the …

EXEMPT CATEGORY 3 DECISION TOOL 
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This Decision Tool is a Qualtrics survey that will lead through 10 questions about your proposed research that will help you determine whether your project will qualify for exempt category 3. Please see the IRB Administrator if you have any questions about your behavioral research.