ContactRole

The purpose of this contact. |Type|Description| |---|---| |irb|Either the IRB that approved the research, or in secondary jurisdictions, an “assenting” IRB that reviewed the initial approval and accepted it for their own jurisdiction.| |principal_investigator|Principal investigator of the study. Conceivably there can be one of these for every jurisdiction, but this is rare.| |investigator|Position could be co-investigator, medical monitor, repository guardian, etc. Nevertheless, this person is not presented as a point of contact (use a support role for that).| |sponsor|The institution funding the study and/or providing IRB oversight. Sometimes the institution the Principal Investigator is affiliated with.| |study_support|Position could be study coordinator or study contact—the person the participant should contact about participation in the study.| |technical_support|Support person or department for the technology being utilized (mobile app, website, device provisioning, etc.).| Values: "irb","principal_investigator","investigator","sponsor","study_support","technical_support"