IRB Success!

Yippy hooray!! Just got the GREAT news that my PPD study has passed UM IRB! Even better, it was found to be exempt from review by the IRB! That's because we won't be able to link subjects at all to their ID numbers, mainly because everything will be in Chinese.
I was so worried about this part because I wouldn't be able to start collecting data before the approval. Cheryl asked them on Wednesday to please expedite the process, and she was also able to change the original application with our revised questionnaire, so now we don't even have to amend anything! YAY!

We have had the greatest fortune with getting this study through. To think, I made up this study in February, and we submitted to IRBMED in mid-March (after IRB approval at Beijing University First Hospital...down the hallway), and now, wa-LAH! ~~~\(^O^)/~~~