Wells, Rebecca
Breckenridge, Ellen D.
Linder, Stephen H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (74155)
Article History
Received: 13 November 2019
Accepted: 24 June 2020
First Online: 2 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All study procedures were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declarations and its later amendments. The research protocol for this project was submitted to the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston’s Institutional Review Board. The IRB reviewed the protocol and found it to be exempt. Nonetheless, the authors obtained oral consent from all individuals interviewed, as well as participants in Faith and Diabetes events, to take notes on observations, audiotape conversations, include quotes in observation notes, and use de-identified quotes in any reports of research results.
: No individually identifiable information has been included in this paper. All participants in the peer-educator training sessions and DSME classes gave written consent for TMF, in their role as contractors with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to collect demographic data and participants’ responses to pre- and post- training surveys, and to share that data with the research team at UTHealth. The UTHealth Institutional Review Board determined that the research project was exempt; nevertheless, the UTHealth team requested and obtained oral consent from all peer-educators and DSME class participants for deidentified quotations to be used for illustrative purposes in published papers reporting on the Faith and Diabetes initiative and their respective experiences.
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.