Promoting scientific integrity through open science in health psychology: results of the Synergy Expert Meeting of the European health psychology society. Issue 3 (3rd July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kwasnicka, Dominika; ten Hoor, Gill A.; van Dongen, Anne; Gruszczyńska, Ewa; Hagger, Martin S.; Hamilton, Kyra; Hankonen, Nelli; Heino, Matti Toivo Juhani; Kotzur, Marie; Noone, Chris; Rothman, Alexander J.; Toomey, Elaine; Warner, Lisa Marie; Kok, Gerjo; Peters, Gjalt-Jorn; Luszczynska, Aleksandra
• Is Part Of: Health psychology review. Volume 15:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 333
• Page End: 349
• Publication Date: 2021-07-03
• Subjects: Open science -- integrity -- health psychology -- open access -- replication; Clinical health psychology -- Periodicals; 613.019
• DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2020.1844037
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-7199

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The article describes a position statement and recommendations for actions that need to be taken to develop best practices for promoting scientific integrity through open science in health psychology endorsed at a Synergy Expert Group Meeting. Sixteen Synergy Meeting participants developed a set of recommendations for researchers, gatekeepers, and research end-users. The group process followed a nominal group technique and voting system to elicit and decide on the most relevant and topical issues. Seventeen priority areas were listed and voted on, 15 of them were recommended by the group. Specifically, the following priority actions for health psychology were endorsed: (1) for researchers : advancing when and how to make data open and accessible at various research stages and understanding researchers' beliefs and attitudes regarding open data; (2) for educators : integrating open science in research curricula, e.g., through online open science training modules, promoting preregistration, transparent reporting, open data and applying open science as a learning tool; (3) for journal editors : providing an open science statement, and open data policies, including a minimal requirements submission checklist. Health psychology societies and journal editors should collaborate in order to develop a coordinated plan for research integrity and open science promotion across behavioural disciplines.