approval letter

Fort Peck Tribal Institutional Review Board
For the Protection of Human Subjects
FWA00019355

Fort Peck Community College
Box 398
Poplar, MT 59255
406-768-5555

Chair:

Robert McAnally
406-768-8377
[email protected]

Administrator:

Joy Toavs
406-768-5555
[email protected]

MEMORANDUM
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TO:

Heather Nelson, PhD; Allyson Scherb Auerbach, MPH

FROM:

Robert McAnally
Chair, Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects

DATE:

June 28, 2017

SUBJECT:

Assessment of the Impact of Energy Development on Women’s Behavioral Health
In Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota

The above proposal was reviewed on May 4, 2017 by the Fort Peck Tribal Institutional Review Board.
This proposal is now approved for a period of one-year.
Please keep track of the number of subjects who participate in the study and of any unexpected or
adverse consequences of the research. If there are any adverse consequences, please report them
to the committee as soon as possible. If there are serious adverse consequences, please suspend
the research until the situation has been reviewed by the Institutional Review Board.
Any changes in the human subjects’ aspects of the research should be approved by the committee
before they are implemented.
It is the investigator’s responsibility to inform subjects about the risks and benefits of the research.
Although the subject’s signing of the consent form, documents this process, you, as the investigator
should be sure that the subject understands it. Please remember that subjects should receive a copy
of the consent form and that you should keep a signed copy for your records.
In one year, you will be sent a questionnaire asking for information about the progress of the
research. The information that you provide will be used to determine whether the committee will give
continuing approval for another year. If the research is still in progress in 5 years, a complete new
application will be required.
The Fort Peck IRB requests that when you have a manuscript, thesis, or presentation prepared for
public consumption, that you provide the Fort Peck IRB with an opportunity to review the document
prior to publication and to make recommendations to ensure that the document appropriately respects
the Fort Peck peoples.