Thank you for expressing an interest in participating in the Fox Insight research study, sponsored by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF).
You may print a copy of this form to think about or discuss with family or friends before making your decision to participate in Fox Insight.
The purpose of the Fox Insight study is to collect self-reported health information over time (about 5 years) from up to 175,000 study participants. Participants will include patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), their caregivers, people at-risk of developing PD, and members of the general community that do not have PD. To investigate participants lived experience, the study will collect a variety of information from study volunteers including observational and other health-related forms of information with the ultimate goal of informing future therapeutic studies. This study is being done to help improve our understanding of PD, such as how the disease impacts health and quality of life over time and whether there are connections between family neurological history, general health, environmental risk factors and PD. We are also interested in the symptoms leading up to PD in those people at-risk and the experience of care-partners for people with PD.
Participation in the study is entirely voluntary. No medical treatments, medical advice or medical interventions will be provided to you as part of this study.
If you decide to take part in this study, you will be asked to participate in the following activities:
The information you share will be collected, de-identified (stripped of personal information such as your name and date of birth to help protect your privacy) and stored in the Fox Insight data repository to be made available to qualified researchers for future research on PD and other disorders.
If you agree to participate as a patient with PD, you have 3 ways to give us your information:
In addition to the procedures described above, Fox Insight includes the option to receive messages about study updates and other studies that may be developed in the future. You will be able to reply and participate using the same system, but you have no obligation to reply at all. You may report unwelcome or inappropriate emails to the sponsor. If participation in a related study conducted and communicated through Fox Insight (sub-study) becomes available, you will receive a separate description of that sub-study and be requested to review the corresponding Information Sheet to participate in the sub-study.
This study involves collecting and storing personal, identifiable information about you, so there is a potential for invasion of privacy or breach in confidentiality. To minimize these risks, we will not store any directly identifiable information about you with your self-reported health-related questionnaire responses or sub-study data. Your information will be assigned a unique code number and stored in a secure manner. Information shared with researchers through the Fox Insight data repository will only include the code number. No personal, identifiable information will be shared outside the study team.
Even with removal of identifying information, in some circumstances it may be possible to re-identify individuals, given the type and amount of data provided. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that your identity will never become known.
There are no expected benefits for you to participate in this study.
You will not be paid to participate in this study.
There will be no cost to you for participating in this study.
MJFF (“Sponsor”) makes reasonable efforts to keep the information collected from you private, protected and secure. Before your health information is made available to other researchers through the Fox Insight data repository, the data you provide will be de-identified, which means no personal identifiers are included (for example, your name, date of birth, or address). Also, the data repository will combine information provided by all volunteers in the study before it is made available for research purposes to qualified researchers. Qualified researchers must agree to certain terms and conditions in order to receive and use the information for research purposes.
Your permission to use the health information provided to Fox Insight will not expire. You may choose to withdraw from the study at any time by not sharing additional information. If you choose to withdraw from the study, we will keep the information we have already collected about you indefinitely. Any de-identified data that has already been shared with the Fox Insight data repository prior to your withdrawal will not be removed.
Your participation in this study is voluntary. You may decide not to participate or you may leave the study at any time, for whatever reason. You may send an email to info@foxinsight.org to withdraw your participation in the study or you can simply opt to not share any additional information. Your decision will not result in any penalty.
For employees of MJFF, taking part in this research is not part of your job and choosing not to participate will not affect your job. You will not be offered or receive any special job-related consideration if you take part in this research.
For more information or questions about this research, you may email info@foxinsight.org.
If you have any questions about your rights as a research subject, you may contact:
New England IRB at 1-800-232-9570.
After you have read this form and the Fox Insight website Terms and Conditions, you will be asked to check a box to indicate if you agree to participate in this study.
By checking the box, you are confirming that you reviewed the Fox Insight Information Sheet and the Fox Insight website Terms and Conditions. This indicates your agreement to participate in the Fox Insight study and that you agree to the Fox Insight Terms and Conditions, which govern use of this website.