In fact, parents often shift clinical conversations to less distressing topics, as they are emotionally unable to bear discussing end-of-life decisions for extended periods [ 79].
For potentially distressing topics such as domestic violence and rape, we asked respondents about general problems in their community rather than their personal experiences.
However the committee was concerned that students who found a study dealing with the topic of CSA distressing might be reluctant to absent themselves from the class.
Face-to-face interviews were chosen due to the sensitive and potentially distressing nature of the research topics.
The majority of participants felt that the topic was inappropriate or distressing, and did not wish to discuss it.
(The content creators' own behaviour, particularly in light of some pretty distressing sexual assault claims, is another whole topic).
(The content creators' own behavior, particularly in light of some pretty distressing sexual assault claims, is another whole topic).
The literature reveals no known or recorded instance of complaint or harm, and suggests that many respondents find research participation to be a positive experience even when this involves discussion of topics that may be difficult and distressing.
This week's big news topic on the fanboy circuit has unearthed distressing memories for me of a certain A-list actor doing jaw-droppingly awful things to one of my most loved comic-book heroes as a kid: Daredevil.
In the wake of Channel 4's 2001 broadcast of Chris Morris's Brass Eye satire on the paedophilia panic, culture secretary Tessa Jowell judged paedophilia as "too powerful a topic to be interpreted as satire, too distressing for parents".
