Widening the cracks: Unintended harms of excluding individuals at risk of suicide from broader mental health research.

Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Vol 43(6), 2022, 455-459; doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000872Although excluding individuals at risk of suicide in broader mental health research may feel like a necessary compromise for researchers, it is important to consider the ethical implications of these decisions for the excluded individuals themselves, as well as the data quality threats it may pose to study results. This editorial discusses these issues in light of the recent literature, and focuses on the specific harms to these individuals, as well as the potential for biases in recruited samples; it concludes with how some of these issues can be mitigated. Moreover, the authors provide some lessons learned from their own experiences conducting a study of a brief online intervention for depression that excluded individuals at risk of suicide. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research