Several procedures have been implemented in order to ensure confidentiality of all research participants. Each woman is assigned a study specific identification code and this is the only identifying information on the data files. Only the Principal Investigator, Dr. Parks has access to the computer files with participant names and contact information. All of the research staff is trained in the ethical issues related to participant confidentiality and have completed the National Institutes of Health’s Human Subjects training course. Any reports of the data will not include information about specific participants: only group findings will be presented. Once all data are collected participant records will be destroyed.

This study has been reviewed and approved by the University at Buffalo’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). If you would like more information about the Social and Behavioral Sciences IRB, please visit their website at http://www.research.buffalo.edu/humansubjects/IRB/ Behavioral_Sciences/