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ArticleAIDS and behavior2026

Procedures to Verify Legitimacy and Uniqueness of Responses in an Online Study with U.S. Young Gay and Bisexual Men Who Use Stimulants.

Pablo K Valente, Giselle O'Connor, Caroline Useda, Celia Fisher, Katie B Biello, Matthew J Mimiaga, Brandon Brown

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Article in AIDS and behavior, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

7 authors.

Pablo K ValenteDepartment of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, 99 East Main Street, WNOL 508, Waterbury, CT, 06702, USA. pablo.valente@uconn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2058-3472
Giselle O'ConnorDepartment of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, 99 East Main Street, WNOL 508, Waterbury, CT, 06702, USA.
Caroline UsedaDepartment of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, 99 East Main Street, WNOL 508, Waterbury, CT, 06702, USA.
Celia FisherHIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Institute, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA.
Katie B BielloDepartment of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA. katie_biello@brown.edu.
Matthew J MimiagaDepartment of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Brandon BrownDepartment of Social Medicine, Population and Public Health, UC Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside, USA.

Funding

Training Program in HIV Prevention Research EthicsR25DA031608 · NIDA · FORDHAM UNIVERSITY · PI FISHER, CELIA B · 2011 to 2025
$4.9M
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development UM2HD111102National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases P30AI042853NIH HHS R25DA031608
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this brief report, we describe our procedures to determine the legitimacy and uniqueness of responses in an online study with young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in the U.S. Our verification procedures included automated methods (e.g., Qualtrics' fraud detection, and knowledge, attention, and consistency-checks), manual methods (e.g., reviewing individuals' open-ended descriptions of an image), and verification video-conference or phone calls. In total, 9321 individuals completed our eligibility screener and 2637 met eligibility criteria (28.3%). However, we could only ascertain legitimacy and uniqueness of 251 of these entries (9.5% of eligible individuals). Automated and manual methods flagged 68.4 and 9.4% of eligible entries as non-legitimate or duplicate, respectively; another 12.6% of eligible entries were excluded for not being able to confirm legitimacy in verification calls. Researchers should consider a range of automated and manual verification procedures to ensure data quality in internet-based studies.

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Data integrityHIV prevention researchOnline recruitmentSexual minority youth

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PMID42217129

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