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What Should Researchers Do When a Participant Discloses Self-Harm or Suicide Risk?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should Researchers Do When Participation Causes Unexpected Distress?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should Researchers Do When Potential Participants Believe Participation Is Mandatory?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should Researchers Do When Stakeholders Disagree About How the Study Should Be Designed?
Designing a Study You Can Defend
What Should Researchers Do When They Discover Possible Illegal Activity?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should Researchers Tell Participants About the Limits of Confidentiality?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should the Literature Tell You Not to Repeat in Your Own Study?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Be Able to Say About a Topic After a Good Literature Search?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Check Before Building a Study Around an Existing Dataset?
Finding a Research Idea Worth Pursuing
What Should You Check Before Treating an Ethics Approval Letter as Permission to Begin?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Consider Before Planning Research With Vulnerable or Hard-to-Reach Populations?
Finding a Research Idea Worth Pursuing
What Should You Consider Before Transferring Research Data Across Countries?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Consider Before Transferring Research Data Between Institutions?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Decide First After Settling on a Research Question?
Finding a Research Idea Worth Pursuing
What Should You Do if a Known Key Paper Does Not Appear in Your Search?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do if a Participant Becomes Ill or Injured During Research?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Do if a Participant Was Enrolled Who Did Not Meet the Approved Eligibility Criteria?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Do if New Databases Have Become Available?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do if Terminology Has Changed Since the Original Search?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do if the Original Search Strategy Was Weak?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do If You Cannot Reach Your Planned Sample Size?
Designing a Study You Can Defend
What Should You Do if You Discover After Data Collection That Ethics Approval Was Required?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Do When a Child Does Not Say No but Clearly Appears Unwilling to Participate?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Do When a Common Acronym Produces Thousands of Irrelevant Results?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Conference Abstract Never Becomes a Full Paper?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Construct Has No Widely Accepted Definition?
Building a Foundation Your Study Can Stand On
What Should You Do When a Correction Materially Changes the Study’s Result?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Literature Search Returns Tens of Thousands of Results?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Major New Study Appears After Acceptance but Before Publication?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Measure or Instrument Does Not Work as Expected?
Designing a Study You Can Defend
What Should You Do When a New Study Appears and Fills Your Research Gap?
Finding a Research Idea Worth Pursuing
What Should You Do When a Paper Refers to an Appendix or Protocol You Cannot Locate?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Participant Appears to Have Forgotten What They Agreed To?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Do When a Participant No Longer Seems Comfortable Participating but Has Not Explicitly Withdrawn?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Do When a Preprint and the Published Paper Report Different Results?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Research Idea Is Valuable but Not Feasible Right Now?
Finding a Research Idea Worth Pursuing
What Should You Do When a Research Paper Is Behind a Paywall?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Retracted Paper Is Still Widely Cited as Valid Evidence?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Review Includes a Study That Was Later Retracted?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Risk Becomes Apparent Only After the Study Has Started?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Do When a Search Strategy Becomes Too Complicated to Maintain?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When a Search Works in PubMed but Fails in Another Database?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When Access to the Data Depends on Someone Else’s Permission?
Finding a Research Idea Worth Pursuing
What Should You Do When an Important New Study Appears While Your Manuscript Is Under Review?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When an Important Source Is Written in a Language You Cannot Read?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When an Important Study Doesn’t Meet Your Original Criteria?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When Another Participant, Rather Than the Researcher, Reveals Confidential Research Information?
Doing Research Without Compromising Ethics
What Should You Do When Different Databases Produce Dramatically Different Numbers of Results?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
What Should You Do When Different Papers From the Same Study Report Different Outcomes?
Finding What the Literature Really Says
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