Confidentiality {27}
RECRUITMENT
We establish excellent rapport with respondents and assure them that we are researchers with a private, local university and in no way representing NYCHA, law enforcement, or government agencies. No analyses, reports, or peer-reviewed articles will identify any participants. In-depth interviews may also be conducted somewhere nearby but not in the respondent’s household, such as a porch, church, park, and café, yet regardless of location all protections and confidentiality protocols apply.We record information about the participant during initial participant recruitment allow us to recontact that same individual for follow-up surveys for the interim and long term assessments. With the participant’s consent, this information may include address and/or telephone number so that we can recontact them to schedule subsequent follow-up, possibly over the telephone. Participants are also informed that any other identifying information that is recorded—such as names and birthdates—for study participants, will be destroyed at the conclusion of the study.