Abstract

The current 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 specializing in health, social and behavioural psychology convened to discuss priority issues regarding scientific integrity promotion and open science in health psychology. The group 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 endorsed by the group (5, 6 and 4 from each area). Each of the issues was considered by the group and formed the basis of this position statement. 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.

摘要

当前的文章描述了立场声明和建议采取的行动，以通过协同专家组会议认可的健康心理学中的开放科学来制定促进科学完整性的最佳实践。16 名专门研究健康、社会和行为心理学的 Synergy 会议参与者召开会议，讨论有关促进科学诚信和健康心理学开放科学的优先问题。该小组为研究人员、看门人和研究最终用户制定了一系列建议。小组过程遵循名义小组技术和投票系统来引出和决定最相关和最热门的问题。列出并投票表决了 17 个优先领域，其中 15 个得到小组的认可（每个领域 5 个、6 个和 4 个）。每个问题都由小组审议并构成本立场声明的基础。具体而言，以下健康心理学优先行动得到了认可：（1）对于研究人员：推进在不同研究阶段何时以及如何使数据开放和可访问，并了解研究人员对开放数据的信念和态度；(2)对于教育者：将开放科学纳入研究课程，例如通过在线开放科学培训模块、促进预注册、透明报告、开放数据和将开放科学作为学习工具应用；(3)对于期刊编辑：提供开放科学声明和开放数据政策，包括最低要求提交清单。健康心理学协会和期刊编辑应该合作，为跨行为学科的研究诚信和开放科学推广制定一个协调的计划。