DO YOU CONTROL YOUR BLOOD SUGAR?

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As part of my Health Psychology MSc thesis, I am looking for males and females aged 18 years and older who regularly control their blood sugar. You will be required to complete three questionnaires looking into the effects of numeracy skills on the relationship between doctor-patient communication and blood sugar control. Data will be collected initially, and then follow-up data will be sent via email 4 to 8 weeks later containing the same three questionnaires. Completion at each time point will take approximately 20 minutes and participation would be greatly appreciated. Please visit the link for access to the questionnaire. https://ljmupsych.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e2GhkPrlk5XVt9r

This study has recieved ethical approval and had been approved by admin of this forum.

Thank you for your time 🙂
 
I suggest you change the following question:
I keep all doctors’ appointments recommended for my diabetes treatment.
as a lot of us do not see doctors, but see nurses, what is the answer to the question in this case? In fact you seem to change from doctors to diabetes specialist to medical practitioner or GP in various places

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I record my blood sugar levels regularly (or analyse the value chart with my blood glucose meter).
what is a value chart?

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our target blood sugar is between 60 and 120. What? these values are not UK blood glucose readings. In fact all your questions on readings are in non-uk measurements.

We don't buy prescriptions in Scotland!

What is NPH insulin?

It may be a questionnaire about numeracy but some of the questions will be irrelevant to people not on insulin and the ones about metformin irrelevant to those not on it.

I wasn't aware that Irish was a different ethnic group to Northern Irish.
Why are we allowed to decline to answer the question on gender but not on ethnic group?

I am sorry but I cannot fill in such a strange badly written questionnaire.
 
I have completed the survey. Just a couple of queries.

It is unclear on the questions about the GP and Practice nurse, whether you are asking about consulting them about advice/appointments about Diabetes or about any matter. My answers would be completely different.

In the calculation section you ask about how many test strips you would take on holiday. We are advised to take double the amount when going away. I wasn't sure whether you had taken that into account in your expected answer.
 
SB2015 said:
I have completed the survey. Just a couple of queries.

In the calculation section you ask about how many test strips you would take on holiday. We are advised to take double the amount when going away. I wasn't sure whether you had taken that into account in your expected answer.
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Its a numeracy test!
 
Vicsetter said:
Its a numeracy test!
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I stand by my query. I have spent many years writing numeracy and Mathematics questions.
Each question needs to be unambiguous if the results are to be of any use.
 
SB2015 said:
I stand by my query. I have spent many years writing numeracy and Mathematics questions.
Each question needs to be unambiguous if the results are to be of any use.
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the question on how many test strips for your 2 week holiday is just a simple numeracy test, not how many test strips should you take in case you need more. Like 'if you eat 3 sweets a day, how many do you eat in a fortnight (biweek)'
Who told you to take double the number of strips anyway. Won't work for most T2s who don't get strips.
 
It's like some of the work related tests I've done for jobs where the scenarios are not real life so that you have to work the answers out rather than just knowing them. I hope.
 
They tell all T1s to take double, Vicsetter - double everything - so I reckon our motorhome is often fuller than the average Pharmacy, plus a fair chunk of Roche's Warehouse in pump consumables, plus at least one spare meter taking the same strips as the main one, plus cartridge pens and needles and insulin in case of pump failure in far flung distant places and no fixed abode!

I'll have a go at it.

If the question is 'how many would you take' rather than 'how many do you reckon you'd probably use', since nobody can ever be specific about that - the first will always be double the second, in my case!
 
H Walmsley mentioned on the Intro page - is it Helen Walmsley - and where the heck do I know her name from?
 
Vicsetter said:
our target blood sugar is between 60 and 120. What? these values are not UK blood glucose readings. In fact all your questions on readings are in non-uk measurements.

We don't buy prescriptions in Scotland!

What is NPH insulin?
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If those blood sugar measurements are the US version, they definitely ARENT our blood sugar ranges. 60 - 120 equals to 3.3mmol/ml - 6.6mmol/ml

3.3 is way too low. Anything under 4mmol/ml is considered hypoglycaemic and needs treating with 15g fast acting carbohydrates

Also prescriptions are free for everyone in Wales, too.

@Vicsetter NPH insulin is "intermediate insulin" as opposed to basal and bolus insulin
 
... and prescriptions are free in England for those treated by insulin.
 
trophywench said:
They tell all T1s to take double, Vicsetter - double everything - so I reckon our motorhome is often fuller than the average Pharmacy, plus a fair chunk of Roche's Warehouse in pump consumables, plus at least one spare meter taking the same strips as the main one, plus cartridge pens and needles and insulin in case of pump failure in far flung distant places and no fixed abode!

I'll have a go at it.

If the question is 'how many would you take' rather than 'how many do you reckon you'd probably use', since nobody can ever be specific about that - the first will always be double the second, in my case!
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Its not a survey for T1s though. and whatever your calculations do you not take a full pot(s) anyway, so is the answer 42 or 50? (or whatever), stupid (not you)
 
Done.
But...
Bit of a hotch potch of questions, some badly worded (as described above), some needed more options and I guess some were lifted directly from the interweb (i.e. using US BG values and cups in ingredients etc).
Not sure why I will have to fill out the same questionnaire in 6-8 weeks though? Somehow I don't think much will change in that time.
 
Vicsetter said:
Its not a survey for T1s though. and whatever your calculations do you not take a full pot(s) anyway, so is the answer 42 or 50? (or whatever), stupid (not you)
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That's a point Vicsetter - supposing you'd already been using the current pot about a week @ 4 a day and even if you were only going for a week - you'd probably throw a spare whole pot in your suitcase anyway, if you had em on prescription and weren't going abroad anyway to save you having to source a local GP surgery if you needed more cos someone had knocked a drink over the open pot - or whatever! Cos for the room they take up you, may just as well.

Most of us take clothes we never have on our backs for the duration of the stay and no mother in the WORLD would take a child like I was even out for the DAY without a clean pair of socks in her handbag! I wasn't deliberately scruffy - but there was simply something about WATER - whether it was a puddle or a lake - that invariably attracted my tootsies. In winter downpours when Wellies were de rigueur even, wearing long grey winter socks under em - they'd still end up soaked through!
 
zx10pilot said:
Done.
But...
Bit of a hotch potch of questions, some badly worded (as described above), some needed more options and I guess some were lifted directly from the interweb (i.e. using US BG values and cups in ingredients etc).
Not sure why I will have to fill out the same questionnaire in 6-8 weeks though? Somehow I don't think much will change in that time.
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I presume its a follow up set of questions, not the same ones,
I'm still waiting for a mod to say this has been approved as we only have Helen's word for it, and she doesn't appear to be monitoring the thread.
 
Vicsetter said:
I presume its a follow up set of questions, not the same ones,
I'm still waiting for a mod to say this has been approved as we only have Helen's word for it, and she doesn't appear to be monitoring the thread.
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Yes, it has been approved Vic 🙂
 
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