Aan Het Rot Marije, Wessel Ineke
Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2025 Feb-Apr;20(1-2):38-45. doi: 10.1177/15562646241280208. Epub 2024 Aug 28.
Prospective research participants do not always retain information provided during consent procedures. This may be relatively common in online research and is considered particularly problematic when the research carries risks. Clinical psychology studies using the trauma film paradigm, which aims to elicit an emotional response, provide an example. In the two studies presented here, 112-126 participants were informed they would be taking part in an online study using a variant of this paradigm. The information was provided across five digital pages using either a standard or an interactive format. In both studies, compared to the control condition, participants in the interactive condition showed more retention of information. However, this was only found for information about which they had been previously asked via the interactive format. Therefore, the impact of adding interactivity to digital study information was limited. True informed consent for an online study may require additional measures.
潜在的研究参与者并不总是能记住在同意程序中提供的信息。这在在线研究中可能相对常见，并且当研究存在风险时，被认为是特别成问题的。使用创伤电影范式的临床心理学研究旨在引发情绪反应，就是一个例子。在这里呈现的两项研究中，112 - 126名参与者被告知他们将参与使用该范式变体的在线研究。信息通过五个数字页面以标准或交互式格式提供。在两项研究中，与对照条件相比，交互式条件下的参与者对信息的保留更多。然而，这仅在通过交互式格式之前询问过他们的信息方面被发现。因此，在数字研究信息中添加交互性的影响是有限的。在线研究的真正知情同意可能需要额外的措施。
