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Record W4415063374 · doi:10.1177/15562646251384573

Weighing Open Science Against Research Participation Burden in Informed Consent: A Randomized Pilot Study

2025· article· en· W4415063374 on OpenAlexafffund
Renata Iskander, Patrick Bodilly Kane, Madeleine Sharp, Jonathan Kimmelman

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicPatient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersRéseau de cancérologie Rossy
KeywordsRandomized controlled trialOpen scienceClinical trialProtocol (science)Open dataResearch ethicsPatient participationOpen label

Abstract

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Deciding to participate in clinical research requires patients to evaluate various trial characteristics. This survey study measured the influence of trial characteristics (visit volume and open data sharing) on willingness to participate in patients with Parkinson's disease. Patients were randomized to either evaluate two trials (joint condition) or a single trial (separate condition). For patients who evaluated both trials, willingness to participate was greater in the restricted science protocol with fewer visits (7.60 vs. 7.12; mean difference, -0.48; 95% CI, -0.83 to -0.14). Patients who evaluated both trials were less willing to participate in the study involving more visits than patients who only evaluated the study involving more visits (7.12 vs. 8.14; mean difference, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.30 to 1.74). Patients have difficulty evaluating information about open science and visit burden when information is presented separately. Although views toward open science were favorable, preferences for fewer visits dominated decisions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Direct model labels (unvalidated)

Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.

Model armCategoriesStudy designConfidence
gemmaMetaresearchOpen science
Domain: Methods · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Randomized trialhigh
gptMetaresearchOpen science
Domain: Methods · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Randomized trialhigh
models agreeAgreement compares identical category sets and study designs across arms.

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.068
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.111
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Open science
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.999
Threshold uncertainty score0.360

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0680.111
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.006
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.950
GPT teacher head0.784
Teacher spread0.166 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Labeled directly by 2 models reading the full record.

Study designRandomized trial
DomainMethods
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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