I am committed to treating you and all research participants with the highest degree of respect, honor, and confidentiality.

All responses will be handled in a non-judgmental and compassionate manner,

with care and concern for each participant individually.

For your privacy, the survey is completely anonymous, and your interview responses will be anonymized to remove any specific identifying details. All raw data will be securely kept under the guidance of Asbury Theological Seminary's Institutional Review Board (IRB).

To protect you further, you will be grouped in a half-decade cohort, which means there are 5 years or 10 semesters of individuals that will help keep you anonymous if specific demographic markers are used in analysis. I will also be using pseudonyms and composite persons as examples in the final write up to further ensure confidentiality and anonymity in disseminating my findings.