Key ethical questions for research during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Effects pertinent to lockdown include acute financial strain, household dynamics, and having an underlying mental or physical health condition.
“Effects pertinent to lockdown include acute financial strain (low income, unemployment), household dynamics (domestic violence, living alone or with young children not attending nursery or school),9 and having an underlying mental or physical health condition”
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“3 However, we do not know whether this holds in the context of a global pandemic.”
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- Authors
- Townsend, E., Nielsen, E., Allister, R., & Cassidy, S. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Townsend, Ellen
- Venue
- The Lancet Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-05
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 381-383
- ISSN
- 2215-0366 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7185919
- OpenAlex
- W3020257121
- Cited by
- 97
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 29 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 15.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Lancet Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/N000501/2, ES/N000501/1)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics in Clinical Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Keywords
- research ethics, COVID-19 pandemic, self-harm, suicide, mental health research
- MeSH terms
- Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Humans, Mental Health, Pneumonia, Viral, Coronavirus Infections, Ethics, Research, Biomedical Research, Pandemics
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