 Here we are going to talk about some aspects related to documentation of informed consent. When documentation is required, there are the two methods available to see how we can do it. Informed consent in a writing form. Participants or their legal representatives sign a form containing all elements of the consent and these elements mean all those elements which we have discussed stepwise in earlier lecture. Person who signed the consent form is given a copy as a reference and reminder of the information conveyed. So, this is a formal process in which all the documentation is completed, by laying down the information, sign a signature and giving a copy of it to the participant and also to the director. Verbal presentation with short form. Short form refers to the summary of consent information given to the participants and consent is done orally and is documented by an impartial witness. The witness must document that the process has been occurred and also the content of the process. Like if we are doing a covert observation or if we are doing a quasi-experiment in which we have to take the semi-consent kind of piece and we are not pulling the write down of informed consent but there is a third party involved. Let's say in an educational institution, there can be a head or a principal. In a hospital, there can be an MS or an in-charge in the management authority through which we sign the informed consent and we verbally ask the other participants and apply it. Then, the waiver of the documentation of the consent process is not always required as we have given multiple examples related to that. It may be waived under following two circumstances. If we simplify all the examples, we face two situations. The first one would be if the participants want to hide their identity, the breach of their confidentiality could be harmful for in many situations. The first thing is that the participant himself says, I am a sensitive person, I am vulnerable to different situations and I do not want to expose myself and he does not reveal his identity. Research about women who have left abusive partners assessing the factors that affect their ability to leave. If we are doing interviews with a group of women and we are in an abusive relationship, after being abused and physically beaten, we leave a relationship and then we ask their willingness to participate in that research so that we can see the resilience of women. We can see their decision-making power, how they can come to this stage and make decisions, when they can relive their self-esteem. So first of all, it is important to respect the fact that they do not want to reveal their identity so that they do not take informed consent. Then the study involves minimal to no risk to participants and involves no procedure requiring consent outside the context of participation. Where there is a minimum risk, there is also a situation where we can practice this exercise. For example, a telephone survey by environmental educators asking participants about global warming phenomena and this possible impact on environment. In this research, no one has any risk that they participate in a telephone survey and they are answering only 2-3 questions on their phone call that what are the risk factors for our global warming and what should we do for protection So these are the situations, the first one is that the person is not going to reveal the identity because of safety, security or emotional trauma and the second one is that there is minimum risk involved and participants can easily tell the situation that what are their opinion and attitude. So these are the issues which are related to the documentation of informed consent and we can take care of them in documenting that specific document.