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Thank you for your interest in this initiative. The report on this initiative, including the final list of priorities for research and knowledge translation, will be available online by Fall 2018.
Thinking of suicide? There is help. Call 9-1-1 or get support from the Canada Suicide Prevention Service by phone, text or chat:
Phone: toll free 1-833-456-4566
Text: 45645
Chat: www.crisisservicescanada.ca
Quebec residents, call 1 866 APPELLE
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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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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.
You do not need to provide your name to answer the questionnaire and you are encouraged to do so anonymously, however we do ask a few questions to better understand and report back on the profile of participants. We ask that you only answer the questionnaire once.
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Background information on this initiative is available here.
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.
Please note that the responses to this question will not be closely monitored. If you are currently experiencing distressing thoughts or thoughts of suicide and need immediate assistance, please find information for help here: http://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/. For residents of Quebec, call 1 866 APPELLE.
Individuals diagnosed with FASD are at a greater risk for suicide, yet little is known about the social-epigenetics of this co-occurring cluster. As well, little is known about the intergenerational underpinning of this risk, including the unfortunate suicide risk potential of a mother who gives birth to a child who is diagnosed with FASD. Further, It is equally important to develop proactive prevention and intervention programs that focus on this co-occurring cluster, child and mother, FASD and suicide. This research would build on Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call to Action and a recently developed social- biobanking initiative called Translating to the Community: A social epigenetic study of FASD. This University-Indigenous Community-FASD Clinic Social Biobank is seeking to develop an earlier diagnosis of FASD and its associated conditions and behaviours and to refine and develop programs that improve the quality of life for children, youth, adults, families and communities impacted by this life-long condition and social-biological-health cluster.
Gendering suicide
Those with lived experience, such as suicide attempt survivors, suicide loss survivors, those with chronic suicide ideations, and/or those who care for them, are not always engaged in a meaningful way within suicide prevention efforts. They may be represented on councils or boards, but can be tokenised in this context and their knowledge may not be valued as highly as the clinical, academic knowledge shared at these tables. Additionally, when looking at stigma reduction efforts, celebrities who have experienced mental health experience are often sensationalized and used as an example of hope when often they are highly unrelatable. Many people with lived experience of suicidality may be lower income or without a permanent home or stable job, and may find that their intersectionality within multiple stigmatized populations has potential to give them less hope, not more, when they see examples of the rich and famous who have had the resources to support them in their healing journey. Those with lived experience have strong, passionate, knowledgeable voices. We should investigate how these voice would like to be meaningfully engaged within suicide prevention, stigma reduction, and suicidology research - and follow-up on the research findings by providing opportunities for this engagement to occur. This will engage a valuable perspective within suicide prevention work that will overall strengthen the validity and sincerity of suicide prevention within Canada.
Which methods do you prefer to receive information on research findings?
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Examples:
Please note that the responses to this question will not be closely monitored. If you are currently experiencing distressing thoughts or thoughts of suicide and need immediate assistance, please find information for help here: http://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/. For residents of Quebec, call 1 866 APPELLE.
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.
There is always a gap in time between the creation of knowledge and the implementation of that knowledge. This gap may be in part due to the difficulty of access to research findings by those outside of academic circles. Relevant research findings should not be available only to those with paid access to peer-reviewed journal articles or the ability to attend conferences. A knowledge transfer plan for suicide research findings should include free public access to information in various forms, such as online materials and print materials in accessible language. By working together to close the knowledge transfer gap, we can quicken the uptake of new, evidence-based practices, and overall improve the ability of communities at large to strengthen suicide prevention efforts.
Traditional means of communication are great if you know how to access them and have the time to do so. Front-line practitioners and members of the public are usually lacking at least one of these requirements. Make it simple, in language that someone outside of health care can understand.
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
Thinking of suicide? There is help. Call 9-1-1 or get support from the Canada Suicide Prevention Service by phone, text or chat:
Phone: toll free 1-833-456-4566
Text: 45645
Quebec residents, call 1 866 APPELLEA literature review was completed prior to our stakeholder engagement activities. A summary of the literature review will be made publically available in Fall 2018.
A summary is available here.
May 24 to July 5, 2018.
A report on this initiative including the input received via the questionnaire will be made
available by Fall 2018.