Experience of irreproducibility as a risk factor for poor mental health in biomedical science doctoral students: A survey and interview-based study.

ABSTRACT: High rates of irreproducibility and of poor mental health in graduate students have been reported in the biomedical sciences in the past ten years, but to date, little research has investigated whether these two trends interact. In this study, we ask whether the experience of failing to replicate an expected finding impacts graduate students' mental health. Using an online survey paired with semi-structured qualitative interviews, we examined how often biomedical science doctoral students at a large American public university experienced events that could be interpreted as failures to replicate and how they responded to these experiences. We found that almost all participants had experience with irreproducibility: 84% had failed to replicate their own results, 70% had failed to replicate a

SUBMITTER: Lubega N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10651026 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature