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Crutzen and Göritz BMC Public Health 2010, 10:720 /1471-2458/10/720 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Social desirability and self-reported health risk behaviors in web-based research: three longitudinal studies Rik Crutzen1*, Anja S Göritz2 Abstract Background: These studies sought to investigate the relation between social desirability and self-reported health risk behaviors (e.g., alcohol use, drug use, smoking) in web-based research. Methods: Three longitudinal studies (Study 1: N = 5612, 51% women; Study 2: N = 619, 60%; Study 3: N = 846, 59%) among randomly selected members of two online panels (Dutch; German) using several social desirability measures (Marlowe-Crowne Scale; Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding; The Social Desirability Scale-17) were conducted. Results: Social desirability was not associated with self-reported current behavior or behavior frequency. Socio- demographics (age; sex; education) did not moderate the effect of social desirability on self-reported measures regarding health risk behaviors. Conclusions: The studies at hand provided no convincing evidence to throw doubt on the usefulness of the Internet as a medium to collect self-reports on health risk behaviors. Background reason of why self-reports are used in research is that This work sought to investigate the relation between interventions are nowadays increasingly delivered social desirability and self-reported health risk behaviors through the Internet [5,6]. Internet-delivered interven- (e.g., alcohol use, drug use, and smoking) in web-based tions often rely on self-reports, because bio-medical research. Self-report measures are a common way of measures are not consonant w