Editorial Perspective: A call for action on imposter participants in child and adolescent mental health research.
Imposter participants are dishonest participants who fake their identities or exaggerate their experiences to participate in research. This appears to be a rising problem in quantitative and qualitative research as well as lived experience groups for child and adolescent mental health research. Impo...
| Publicado en: | Child & Adolescent Mental Health Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 149 - 153 |
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| Formato: | editorial questions and answers Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2026
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