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Esther Anene1, Meghana Nallajerla1, Eraka P J Bath1
1Department 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).
Abstract:
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.
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