[HTML][HTML] Threats of bots and other bad actors to data quality following research participant recruitment through social media: Cross-sectional questionnaire

R Pozzar, MJ Hammer, M Underhill-Blazey… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - jmir.org
Background Recruitment of health research participants through social media is becoming
more common. In the United States, 80% of adults use at least one social media platform …

Material hardship level and unpredictability in relation to US households' family interactions and emotional well-being: Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic

S Liu, M Zalewski, L Lengua, MR Gunnar… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has been recognized to provide rare insight to
advance the scientific understanding of early life adversity, such as material hardship …

Bots and nots: safeguarding online survey research with underrepresented and diverse populations

S Bybee, K Cloyes, B Baucom, K Supiano… - Psychology & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT COVID-19 has intensified the use of internet-mediated research for reaching
historically underrepresented minorities (URMs) and other diverse groups. Preventing and …

Optimizing uptake of long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention for men who have sex with men

LT Dean, Z Predmore, A Skinner, S Napoleon… - AIDS and Behavior, 2023 - Springer
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a highly effective HIV prevention tool. Long-acting
injectable PrEP (LAI-PrEP) offers another opportunity to reduce HIV. However, how at-risk …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for the identification and prevention of survey fraud: Data analysis of a web-based survey

M Pratt-Chapman, J Moses, H Arem - JMIR cancer, 2021 - cancer.jmir.org
Background To assess the impact of COVID-19 on cancer survivors, we fielded a survey
promoted via email and social media in winter 2020. Examination of the data showed …

[HTML][HTML] Liar! Liar! Identifying eligibility fraud by applicants in digital health research

JV Glazer, K MacDonnell, C Frederick, K Ingersoll… - Internet …, 2021 - Elsevier
Online studies enable researchers to recruit large, diverse samples, but the nature of these
studies provides an opportunity for applicants to misrepresent themselves to increase the …

[HTML][HTML] Bot or not? detecting and managing participant deception when conducting digital research remotely: case study of a randomized controlled trial

G Loebenberg, M Oldham, J Brown, L Dinu… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Evaluating digital interventions using remote methods enables the recruitment
of large numbers of participants relatively conveniently and cheaply compared with in …

Mental-health trajectories of US parents with young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: A universal introduction of risk

M Zalewski, S Liu, M Gunnar… - Clinical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Parents of young children were a subgroup of the population identified early in the
pandemic as experiencing significant mental-health symptoms. Using a longitudinal sample …

Recognizing and preventing participant deception in online nicotine and tobacco research studies: suggested tactics and a call to action

JL Heffner, NL Watson, J Dahne… - Nicotine and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Nicotine and tobacco researchers have been increasingly using online methods to conduct
research, but this became a practical necessity following the COVID-19 pandemic and the …

“I think that's the most beneficial change that WIC has made in a really long time”: perceptions and awareness of an increase in the WIC cash value benefit

EW Duffy, DA Vest, CR Davis, MG Hall… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,
Infants, and Children (WIC) Cash Value Benefit (CVB) for fruits and vegetables increased by …