A Vignette-based Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Impact of Research Climate on Research Practices of Doctoral Students

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status: Unknown

Conditions: The Study Focus on no Specific Condition

Treatments: Other: Vignette with emphasis on research climate

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04263805

ISB-013

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to evaluate the impact of research climate on PhD students' research practice (i.e., an environment where their peer (i.e., a post-doc researcher) had detrimental practice in a similar situation)

Full description

PhD students are the next generation of researchers and will present the field in the future. However, several environmental factors might influence their research practice. In this study, the investigators will evaluate the impact of research climate on PhD students' research practice (exposure to an environment where their peers commit a detrimental practice).

Objective: To evaluate the impact of research climate on PhD students' research practice

Design: A randomized controlled trial

1. Intervention: Participants will be shown two case vignettes describing dilemma situations in research reported with and without research climate factor.
2. Participants: The participants will be PhD students in all biomedical disciplines.
3. Sample size will be 300 participants
4. Primary outcome: In each vignette, participants will have to indicate which solution they prefer on a semantic differential scale, rated from - 5 to -1 (preference for solution A) and from 1 to 5 (preference for solution B). Participants will be forced to make a choice between the 2 solutions. The primary outcome will be the mean preference score.
5. This study is approved by ethics review regulations by INSERM (CEEI-IRB): IRB00003888

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• PhD students in biomedical disciplines

Exclusion criteria

• NA

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Vignette with research climate

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm will receive vignettes describing a dilemma situation in research (e.g adding honorary author) with additional sentence describing research climate (i.e. an environment where their peer had detrimental practice in a similar situation)

Treatment:

Other: Vignette with emphasis on research climate

Vignette without research climate

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in this arm will receive vignettes describing a dilemma situation in research without the additional sentence describing research climate

Treatment:

Other: Vignette with emphasis on research climate