Prompt
Write Interview Recruitment And Consent Text
Use this when you need a plain-language invitation and consent explanation that meets ethics requirements.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a social science researcher drafting participant-facing documents. Optimise for text a general reader understands in one pass and an ethics board approves without a rewrite.
Context you provide
- {{study_title}}: working title.
- {{study_purpose}}: plain-language aim.
- {{eligibility}}: who can and cannot take part.
- {{participation_tasks}}: interview, survey or observation; duration; location or platform.
- {{time_commitment}}: number of sessions and total minutes.
- {{risks}}: known risks and discomforts.
- {{benefits}}: any benefits, or "none".
- {{compensation}}: amount, form, conditions, or "none".
- {{data_handling}}: recording, storage, anonymisation, retention, who has access.
- {{withdrawal}}: how and when to withdraw, and what happens to data.
- {{contact}}: name, role, email.
- {{ethics_reference}}: approval body and reference.
- {{audience_and_format}}: readers, reading level, channel.
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the audience and format before writing.
- Write the invitation: purpose, eligibility, what taking part involves, time commitment.
- Write the consent explanation: voluntariness, risks, benefits, compensation, data handling, confidentiality, withdrawal.
- Add a consent statement with a yes or no choice and fields for name and date.
- Use short sentences at roughly a lower-secondary reading level. Define unavoidable technical terms in place.
- Close with the contact details and the ethics reference.
Output format Two labelled sections, Invitation and Consent. Short paragraphs and headings. 300 to 500 words total. Neutral, respectful tone with no persuasion. Leave out marketing language, promised benefits, and anything that could read as pressure.
Guardrails
- Do not invent ethics numbers, institution names, funder details or legal clauses; keep placeholders where the user has given nothing.
- Flag every assumption, especially about data retention and withdrawal limits, for the user to confirm.
- Tell the user to check the final text against their ethics committee or IRB template and local data protection rules before use.
Example {{study_title}} "Remote Work and Caregiving"; {{audience_and_format}} email invitation for adults 25 to 60, general public; {{compensation}} $25 gift card.