Research Tool

IRB Proposal Generator

Fill in your study details and select the measures you will administer. The tool assembles a structured human-subjects protocol — background, aims, participants, recruitment, measures (with a short psychometric note each), procedure, risks, benefits, compensation, data security, and a generic consent statement — that you can download as Markdown or PDF. It is a starting template; review and adapt it to your institution's IRB requirements before submission.

Study details

Study title

Principal investigator

Institution

Background and significance

Specific aims / hypotheses

Participants (population, sample size, inclusion/exclusion)

Recruitment

Measures

PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire-9)
9-item depression screener (Kroenke, Spitzer & Williams, 2001); public domain; scored 0–27 with established severity cut-offs; strong internal consistency (α ≈ .89). GAD-7 (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7)
7-item anxiety screener (Spitzer et al., 2006); public domain; scored 0–21; α ≈ .90; widely validated in community and primary-care samples. DASS-21 (Depression Anxiety Stress Scales)
21-item measure of depression, anxiety, and stress (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995); free to use; severity bands per subscale. PANAS (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule)
20-item state/trait affect measure (Watson, Clark & Tellegen, 1988); published normative M/SD; high internal consistency for both PA and NA scales. Mini-IPIP (20-item Big Five)
20-item public-domain Big Five inventory (Donnellan et al., 2006); five 4-item domain scales; brief screening of personality structure. IPIP-NEO-120
120-item public-domain Big Five inventory (Johnson, 2014); five domains and thirty facets; large published normative sample. IPIP Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC-32)
32-item public-domain interpersonal circumplex (Markey & Markey, 2009); eight octants on the dominance × warmth plane. WHO-5 Well-Being Index
5-item well-being measure (WHO, 1998); free to use with attribution; scored 0–100.

Procedure & protections

Procedure

Risks and discomforts

Benefits

Compensation

Data security and confidentiality

A title and principal investigator are the minimum needed to assemble a protocol; every other field falls back to a neutral placeholder you can edit afterwards.