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November 30, 2025BMJ Open QualityOpen Access

Preventing and mitigating fraudulent research participants in online qualitative violence and injury prevention research

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DZDevon ZiminskiELEsprene Liddell-Quintyn

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Overview

Methodological paper highlights strategies to mitigate fraudulent participants in online injury prevention research, indicating the importance of data collection.

Key Points

  • Fraudulent participants can hinder the integrity of online qualitative data collection, especially in injury prevention research.
  • Effective strategies include prescreening, requiring video answers, and verifying participant information to reduce fraud risk.
  • Observational analysis provides insights from a firearm violence study implemented in a Northeast city.
  • Ensuring participant safety is crucial, and researchers must balance accessibility and effective detection of fraudulent participants.

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Ziminski et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/692b9da91d383f2b2a37a3fchttps://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2025-003706
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