the verbal permission was obtained as an ethical consideration. Each of the verbatim transcripts was returned to the participant for his/her review so he/she could remark on the accuracy of the document.
During the research, each participant was assured confidentiality through the use of pseudonyms in the reporting of data. They were also assured that once the data were coded,connections back to individual participants are almost
impossible to trace.
Identification of the individual participant is not paramount because the concepts generated by the participants*not the individual participants*are at the center of
study (Glaser, 1978).