Suicide Risk Management in Ecological Momentary Assessment: Participant Concealment of Suicidal Thoughts and Experiences with Safety Procedures.

ABSTRACT: Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) has advanced the study of real-time suicide risk; however, the ethical obligations of researchers in responding to potential participant safety concerns are a topic of continued discussion. Initial research found that participants may modify their EMA ratings to avoid researcher contact, but the rates of underreporting or concealing of suicidal ideation (SI) are unknown, as are motivations for and correlates of these thoughts and behaviors. Beyond impacting participant reports, suicide risk assessment in response to elevated participant risk may also introduce intervention effects into EMA studies. This line of research is imperative to understanding barriers to ecologically valid data while also protecting participants. This study sought to fill these

SUBMITTER: Knorr AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12530944 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature