Ethical and legal issues in suicide research

Mishara, Brian L.; Weisstub, David N.

doi:10.1016/j.ijlp.2004.12.006

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“…Given that it is unethical to withhold information related to increased risk of self-harm (Mishara & Weisstub, 2005), a blinded validation study is unlikely, rendering it difficult to know what percentage of undetected self-harm involves inmates without risk factors and what the true performance of the DHS critical items is. Further, results of the DHS in this study were used by front line clinicians and correctional staff to prioritise persons for further assessment and intervention in the prison.…”

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confidence: 99%

The predictive validity of the Depression Hopelessness Suicide screening form for self-harm among prisoners

Martin

Dorken²,

Simpson

et al. 2014

The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology

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Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The predictive validity of the Depression Hopelessness Suicide screening form for self-harm among prisoners

Martin

Dorken²,

Simpson

et al. 2014

The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology

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“…Their vulnerability can lead to questions of competence and voluntariness of suicidal patients to participate in research, often resulting in more ethical concerns regarding methodologies and research protocols than studies of more innocuous issues. For example, the potential negative influence on a suicidal patient when assigned to a non-treatment control group [64]. The CASPAR study will apply a new method to study suicidology in which we will complement current treatments to enhance self-management in effort to gain data to study basic science.…”

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confidence: 99%

Smartphone-Based Safety Planning and Self-Monitoring for Suicidal Patients: A Conceptual Basis for the CASPAR (Continuous Assessment for Suicide Prevention and Research) Study

Nuij¹,

Ballegooijen²,

Ruwaard³

et al. 2017

Preprint

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Suicidal behaviour remains difficult to predict and prevent, even for experienced mental health care professionals. The known distal risk factors for suicidal behaviour are not sufficiently specific to fully understand the complex dynamic processes that precede a suicide attempt. Realtime mobile monitoring data can be used to analyse proximal risk mechanisms within the suicidal process. At the same time smartphone-based safety planning and self-monitoring may enhance a patient's self-management skills thereby increasing their capacity to respond to a suicidal crisis and to become more aware of crisis symptoms. The current paper describes the theoretical and conceptual rationale for the CASPAR study which applies an innovative approach to the study of suicidal processes. It uses basic science approaches to inform the implementation of an innovative suicide prevention intervention. We aim to develop and implement mobile safety plan in conjunction with real-time monitoring in order to both directly implement suicide prevention interventions and to study the ongoing dynamics of individual suicidal behaviour by applying network analysis.

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“…It therefore creates order, establishes process or method, attributes meaning, and determines both causation and outcomes -giving it considerable moral and political force. It is impossible, therefore, to completely distinguish the epistemology of suicide from its moral or political interests (Mishara and Weisstub 2005). This implicit link between epistemology, methodology, and ethics is reinforced by the fact that many prominent suicidologists also play important social and moral roles -as clinicians, nurses, advocates, mental health workers, and policy-makers.…”

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Suicidology as a Social Practice

Fitzpatrick¹,

Hooker

Kerridge

2014

Social Epistemology

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Suicide has long been the subject of philosophical, literary, theological, and cultural-historical inquiry. But despite the diversity of disciplinary and methodological approaches that have been brought to bear in the study of suicide, we argue that the formal study of suicide, that is, suicidology, is characterised by intellectual, organisational, and professional values that distinguish it from other ways of thinking and knowing. Further, we suggest that considering suicidology as a 'social practice' offers ways to usefully conceptualise its epistemological, philosophical, and practical norms. This work develops the idea of suicidology as a social practice and considers the implications for research, practice and public discourse.

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Ethical and legal issues in suicide research

Cited by 88 publications

References 8 publications

The predictive validity of the Depression Hopelessness Suicide screening form for self-harm among prisoners

The predictive validity of the Depression Hopelessness Suicide screening form for self-harm among prisoners

Smartphone-Based Safety Planning and Self-Monitoring for Suicidal Patients: A Conceptual Basis for the CASPAR (Continuous Assessment for Suicide Prevention and Research) Study

Suicidology as a Social Practice

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