image: Five questions to ask before judging self-reported data as of inferior quality in quantitative health research.
Credit: N. Alwan, 2026, PLOS Global Public Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Professor Nisreen Alwan calls to de-stigmatize self-reported data in health care research, highlighting Long COVID as one setting where it has unique strengths over 'objective' data.
Article URL: https://plos.io/4qBRszB
Article Title: The Stigma of self-report in health research: Time to reconsider what counts as “Objective”
Author Countries: United Kingdom
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Journal
PLOS Global Public Health
Article Title
The Stigma of self-report in health research: Time to reconsider what counts as “Objective”
Article Publication Date
28-Jan-2026
COI Statement
Competing interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist.