Under University of Utah policy, most University employees (including researchers) are required to report situations involving sexual misconduct and discrimination to the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action (OEO/AA) https://oeo.utah.edu/.

This includes research activities that may result in a participant who is a University of Utah student disclosing alleged sexual violence. The PI/study team member to whom incidents of this alleged sexual violence is disclosed is considered a “mandatory reporter” and has an obligation to report these incidents to the University of Utah Office of Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and Title IX (OEO), https://oeo.utah.edu/.

This information has been added to the online consent guidance under “Supplemental Elements of Informed Consent”.