Ethical issues and practical challenges in suicide research: Collaboration with institutional review boards

Crisis

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 107-114

  Hom, Melanie A ^a   Podlogar, Matthew C ^a   Stanley, Ian H ^a   Joiner, Thomas E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Institutional review board; Suicide; Suicide research

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESEARCH; RESEARCH ETHICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUICIDE;

ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUICIDE;

EID: 85015725226     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: 21512396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000415     Document Type: Article

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