Whitney, Rondalyn Varney http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2484-5505
Funding for this research was provided by:
West Virginia University
Article History
Accepted: 16 April 2022
First Online: 8 June 2022
Declarations
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: The authors report no conflict of interest.
: Data used in this study was derived from a larger intervention study. Participants in that study were asked to read and sign a <i>Letter of Consent</i> before relevant demographic data was collected through a Survey Monkey questionnaire. As with all studies involving human subjects, a full board review (IRB) was conducted to assure protection of human subjects. An application for Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval was submitted to and granted by TUI University. All effort was made to assure the protection of human subjects in this study. Participants were informed that their participation was completely voluntary. Prospective research participants were fully informed about the procedures and risks involved in this research project, as well as their right to withdraw from the study at any point in time. Subjects were assured confidentiality and anonymity of their participation in the study. To further assure confidentiality, a graduate assistant served in the role of Research Assistant, de-identifying all data before this researcher saw it and, as a result, no journal entry was linked to a participant by name during the study. This larger study appeared in the Journal of Autism and Related Disorders in 2015 (Whitney, R.V., & Smith, G. (2015). Emotional disclosure through journal writing: Telehealth intervention for maternal stress and mother–child relationships. <i>Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 45(11), </i>3734–3745).
: This study, an analysis of de-identified journal entries of the participants from a previous study, was submitted to the WVU IRB and determined to be exempt (i.e. did not involve human subjects).
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