Participant Carelessness and Fraud: Consequences for Clinical Research and Potential Solutions
Participant Carelessness and Fraud: Consequences for Clinical Research and Potential Solutions
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DOI：
10.1037/abn0000479
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发表时间：
2020-01-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Shapiro, Danielle
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作者：
Chandler, Jesse;Sisso, Itay;Shapiro, Danielle
临床心理学研究通常需要具有特定特征的个体。互联网可用于广泛招募，从而能够招募少数群体，如患有特定心理障碍的人。然而，基于互联网的研究依赖于参与者的自我报告来确定资格，因此，数据质量取决于参与者的诚实。对于那些罕见的群体。即使参与者的不诚实程度很低，也会导致相当大比例的欺诈性调查答复，所有研究都将包括粗心的答复者，他们不注意问题，不理解问题，或故意提供错误的答复。质量差的答复应被视为与高质量的答复截然不同。包括这些反应将导致高估罕见群体的患病率和不正确的估计量表的可靠性。方法和结构之间的相关性。我们证明，由于这些原因，包括质量差的响应，这通常是积极的歪斜，将导致几个数据质量问题，包括虚假的措施之间的关联。我们提供了有关如何确保欺诈参与者被发现并从自我报告研究中排除的建议。
Clinical psychological research studies often require individuals with specific characteristics. The Internet can be used to recruit broadly, enabling the recruitment of rare groups such as people with specific psychological disorders. However, Internet-based research relies on participant self-report to determine eligibility, and thus, data quality depends on participant honesty. For those rare groups. even low levels of participant dishonesty can lead to a substantial proportion of fraudulent survey responses, and all studies will include careless respondents who do not pay attention to questions, do not understand them, or provide intentionally wrong responses. Poor-quality responses should be thought of as categorically different from high-quality responses. Including these responses will lead to the overestimation of the prevalence of rare groups and incorrect estimates of scale reliability. means, and correlations between constructs. We demonstrate that for these reasons, including poor-quality responses-which are usually positively skewed-will lead to several data-quality problems including spurious associations between measures. We provide recommendations about how to ensure that fraudulent participants are detected and excluded from self-report research studies.