C. Procedure for obtaining informed consent. Informed consent will be obtained through verbal consent. The consent form is attached as a separate document. Although the questions will not put participants at risk, participant’s individual experiences with reproductive health care maybe a source of emotional distress or generate a fear of stigma for the participant. Therefore, the lead investigator seeks to provide a way of ensuring confidentiality as well as a way to reduce the potential for emotional distress by not requiring participants to sign their name on any documents associated with the research.
D. Research Protocol. Participants will be asked to take part in a face to face interview. These interviews will be approximately an hour long. These interviews will take place either in the lead investigators office at UTEP, or a mutually agreed upon location where the researcher and participant can speak privately. The interviews will consist of questions on the interview guide. Although a guide will be used, the structure of the interview is flexible to allow for probing based on details that arise in the interviews. …show more content…
Confidentiality of participants will be protected by removing their names from data. No names will be disclosed in the project, and resulting publications will use pseudonyms. The investigator will use verbal consent in order to protect their privacy and confidentiality of participants. The rationale behind this is that although the project does not ask particularly sensitive questions, the individual nature of women’s experiences could lead to discussion of topics that are stigmatized (White et al. 2012). Recordings will be transferred to the lead investigator’s computer as soon as possible after recording, and after transfer, files will be erased from the recorder. The recordings will be kept in a password protected folder on a password protected
D. Research Protocol. Participants will be asked to take part in a face to face interview. These interviews will be approximately an hour long. These interviews will take place either in the lead investigators office at UTEP, or a mutually agreed upon location where the researcher and participant can speak privately. The interviews will consist of questions on the interview guide. Although a guide will be used, the structure of the interview is flexible to allow for probing based on details that arise in the interviews. …show more content…
Confidentiality of participants will be protected by removing their names from data. No names will be disclosed in the project, and resulting publications will use pseudonyms. The investigator will use verbal consent in order to protect their privacy and confidentiality of participants. The rationale behind this is that although the project does not ask particularly sensitive questions, the individual nature of women’s experiences could lead to discussion of topics that are stigmatized (White et al. 2012). Recordings will be transferred to the lead investigator’s computer as soon as possible after recording, and after transfer, files will be erased from the recorder. The recordings will be kept in a password protected folder on a password protected