Conducting Clinical Research Using Crowdsourced Convenience Samples

Convenience samples of college students and research reproducibility

a r t i c l e i n f o Tests of theory in marketing and consumer behavior research are frequently based on convenience samples of undergraduate college students. In a study of business-related ethicality, analysis of data from four dozen convenience samples of undergraduate business students revealed significant differences in means, variances, intercorrelations, and path parameters across the s...

Convenience samples and caregiving research: how generalizable are the findings?

PURPOSE We contrast characteristics of respondents recruited using convenience strategies with those of respondents recruited by random digit dial (RDD) methods. We compare sample variances, means, and interrelationships among variables generated from the convenience and RDD samples. DESIGN AND METHODS Women aged 50 to 64 who work full time and provide care to a community-dwelling older perso...

Obtaining and using copyrighted research journal content--convenience vs ethics.

Conducting research in clinical psychology practice: Barriers, facilitators, and recommendations

OBJECTIVES The combination of clinical psychologists' therapeutic expertise and research training means that they are in an ideal position to be conducting high-quality research projects. However, despite these skills and the documented benefits of research to services and service users, research activity in practice remains low. This article aims to give an overview of the advantages of, and d...

Ethical challenges in conducting clinical research in lung cancer.

UNLABELLED The article examines ethical challenges that arise with clinical lung cancer research focusing on design, recruitment, conduct and dissemination. DESIGN problems related to equipoise can arise in lung cancer studies. Equipoise is an ethics precondition for RCTs and exists where there is insufficient evidence to decide which of two or more treatments is best. Difficulties arise in d...