CU researchers call for national ethics guidelines when student health surveys uncover suicide-risk

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) In a report published today in the highly influential American Journal of Bioethics, the researchers describe a student health survey team that discovered a Colorado school with extremely high rates of suicide risk, and a lack of ethical guidance on whether or how to intervene. The researchers are calling for national ethics guidelines when student health surveys uncover suicide-risk "hot spots."