Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Anene); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (Nallajerla); Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Bath, Castillo).
Psychiatr Serv. 2023 Mar 1;74(3):325-328. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.20220084. Epub 2022 Aug 25.
Research safety protocols are ubiquitous in mental health research involving human subjects and have the potential to harm research participants from racial-ethnic minority populations. For mental health emergencies, such protocols commonly rely on law enforcement for crisis intervention. The authors review inequities experienced by individuals with mental illness in law enforcement encounters, especially Black, Latinx, and other minoritized populations. They then describe the development of a research safety protocol that uses community-based crisis intervention programs as alternatives to law enforcement and provide a roadmap for researchers and institutional review boards to revisit and revise their human subjects safety protocols.
研究安全协议在涉及人类受试者的心理健康研究中无处不在，有可能对来自种族少数民族的研究参与者造成伤害。对于心理健康紧急情况，此类协议通常依靠执法部门进行危机干预。作者回顾了在执法人员接触中患有精神疾病的个人所经历的不平等现象，特别是黑人、拉丁裔和其他少数民族。然后，他们描述了一个研究安全协议的制定，该协议使用基于社区的危机干预计划作为执法的替代方案，并为研究人员和机构审查委员会提供了一个重新审视和修改其人类受试者安全协议的路线图。
