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Thank you for contributing to the development of a Canadian research and knowledge translation agenda for suicide and its prevention. We invite you to answer this questionnaire and share ideas on important research questions and your preferred communication methods by July 5, 2018. The report on this initiative, including the final list of priorities for research and knowledge translation informed by your input, will be sent by email to everyone who registered to this consultation. You can register by clicking on the blue "Register" button on the right of this screen. The report will also be available online.
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Based on your personal and/or professional experience, what would be the most important question related to suicide that could be answered through research?
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A research question is an answerable inquiry into a specific concern or issue. It is the initial step in a research project, and should be clear and focused.
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How suicidality is experienced as a gendered behaviour/condition
The preponderance of suicide prevention interventions are focussed on individuals, or at time, communities. Few studies examine the impact of interventions on upstream determinants of health on suicide rates. Given that suicide is socially patterned, are there effective upstream interventions that many have a great impact on suicide due to their greater reach?
Modern society tends toward prolonging life and fosters a fear of death. People who have experienced a suicidic state are expected to suffer through their despair such that the 'bereaved are spared the grief, sadness, and loss. Much of current suicide prevention dialogue centers around a "you can't die because I would be sad" mentality, rather than focussing on the despair the subject is experiencing.
Are some cultures more/less prone to suicide and why
Which methods do you prefer to receive information on research findings?
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These are NOT the most accessible nor quickest means of obtaining information. However, if one has a high stake in a topic (e.g., because one is personally or professionally invovled with the topic) and one doesn't want to rely on someone else's summary of the research, one really has to plow into the primary literature.
It's not the medium that needs to change it's the language so that all walks of life can understand, get rid of the medical language so the 90% of the population can be educated
