WHEN SNOWBALL SAMPLING LEADS TO AN AVALANCHE OF FRAUDULENT PARTICIPANTS
Justine Sefcik, Zachary Hathaway, Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili · 2023
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Description
Justine Sefcik, Zachary Hathaway, and Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili recounted in 2023 how a caregiver study's own recruitment chain filled it with impostors. Fraudulent respondents chasing incentives are a known stain on survey research. Less told is how they slip into interview studies, where a good story passes for a life.
The team recruited caregivers of people with dementia and chronic leg wounds, partly through a national research registry. One interviewee, after finishing, asked to share the flyer with others 'dealing with similar issues'. The snowball that followed brought people the team believes misrepresented themselves for the payment. Readers get a field report with prevention value: how fraud spreads hand to hand, and what interview teams can do before the avalanche.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Justine Sefcik, Zachary Hathaway, Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |