Fraudulent qualitative study participants: experiences of two nurse researchers.
Why you should read this article: • To recognise the threat of fraudulent participation in nursing research • To read about the experiences of nurse researchers navigating qualitative interviews while suspecting participants were fraudulent • To learn about some red flags that may help identify pote...
| Publicado en: | Nurse Researcher Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 35 - 43 |
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Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The)
Jun2026
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