Pub Date : 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2025.2569682
Janet Page-Reeves, Megan Rivera, Evelyn Lozano, Lidia Regino, Maria Tellez, Pachely Mendivil-Aguayo, Marina Moore, Daniel Perez Rodriguez, Andrea Kalvesmaki, Rebecca Crocker, Alejandro Aragon, Camille Vasquez, Jackie Perez, Reuben J Thomas, Elaine L Bearer, Cristina Murray-Krezan
In this article, we discuss unexpected methodological challenges revealed during interim analysis of data from a mixed-methods study with female Mexican immigrants. 'Tertulias' was a randomized controlled trial of an innovative peer support group model for reducing social isolation and depression among women immigrants from Mexico using a Community-Driven, Community-Engaged Research (CD-CEnR) approach. We describe discordant data obtained using different methods and how we went about triangulating and integrating analyses. In the process, we identified cultural, contextual, and methodological factors that influenced the nature and content of the data, and issues of power and epistemic justice in the broader research enterprise. Based on this experience, we offer insights for data integration to improve both scientific rigor and epistemic justice in health disparities research.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-20DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2025.2575304
Megan J Heise, C M McGhee, Kristina R Olson, Susan A Gelman, Natalie M Gallagher
This study assessed the reliability of an updated two-step measure of gender and sex. Gender diverse youths (n = 610, Meanage = 15 years, SD = 2) and their parents (n = 606, Mage = 48, SD = 5) completed a measure of sex and gender twice with a time delay of 30-60 minutes. Reliability was high, with 95% or higher agreement for sex and gender for both parents and youths. Reliability was highest for parents and for cisgender and transgender boys and girls, slightly lower for nonbinary youths, and lowest for youths who selected other options (e.g., "I don't know"). The two-step measure showed high levels of convergent validity as well. Results demonstrate that the two-step assessment with updated response options reliably identified participants' sex and gender, and these responses could be combined to classify gender modality, including to identify transgender individuals.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2024.2410176
Roseline Jean Louis, Lisa M Thompson
Recruitment for successful health sciences research requires balancing efficiency, cost, accessibility, and reliability of available recruitment methods. Our case-control study used online recruitment methods, which broadened our reach to potential participants across the United States. However, this approach also exposed us to challenges associated with bot interference and fraudulent participation. This paper focuses on maintaining data integrity, specifically when utilizing online participant recruitment methods. Drawing from our experience, we propose The Swiss Cheese Model of Study Participant Fraud Prevention, adapted from Reason's Swiss Cheese Model, and illustrate ten prevention and verification measures that can be taken to minimize fraud in research studies that rely on online recruitment. We emphasize the importance of a layered approach, including carefully designed recruitment media and compensation protocols, vetting of participant eligibility, and data verification protocols to ensure the validity and reliability of research findings in the digital age.
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Using a German online panel, we investigate respondents’ propensity to consent to the linkage of publicly available Facebook data to their survey data and to enable linkage. We analyse the effects ...
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Pub Date : 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2024.2396370
Michael Saward
This article reconstructs and juxtaposes two radically different methodologies for approaching the topic of democracy – one exemplified by major UK art gallery Tate Liverpool’s exhibition called De...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2024.2391957
Cornelia E. Neuert, Tanja Kunz, Tobias Gummer
It is essential for the quality of survey data that questions are easy to understand. We developed four variants of comprehensibility probes measuring the comprehensibility of a survey question as ...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2024.2390173
Martyn Hammersley
Published in International Journal of Social Research Methodology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《国际社会研究方法学杂志》（2024 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2024.2393795
Tanja Kunz, Tobias Gummer
Respondent burden is considered a decisive factor affecting response quality in web surveys. To investigate the objective and perceived burden on web survey respondents and its effects on response ...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2024.2393796
Carol Harrington
Social media provides a repository of qualitative data relevant to difficult to research sensitive issues. Researcher practices vary in terms of how to ethically collect such data. Some argue that ...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2024.2380995
Caitlin M. Prentice
Much attention has been given to how involvement in research can improve teachers’ practices and student outcomes. Less has been said about how teaching in schools can improve researchers’ practice...
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