"There
is a fear that when we talk about suicide, we increase the likelihood of
suicide. It’s a fear shared by teachers, nurses, academics, commissioners and
many others. It’s a fear that’s not only getting in the way of important
conversations, but it’s impeding potentially life-saving research too. When
deciding whether or not to approve a research proposal, ethics committees must
balance up the potential benefits of the study against the risk of doing harm.
Because of this, research proposals where participants are exposed to
suicide-related content may be rejected on the basis that they may have
‘iatrogenic effects’; which put simply means that ethics committees who aren’t
used to dealing with suicide related research may fear that these studies may
cause harm."
"A recent meta-analysis by Blades, Strizke, Page and Brown
from the University of Western Australia tackled this issue head on in their
paper: The benefits and risks of asking research participants about suicide: A
meta-analysis of the impact of exposure to suicide-related content."
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