Research opportunity - for people with lived experience of learning disabilities and diabetes

[everydayupsanddowns]

Diabetes UK, Queen’s University Belfast, and the University of Glasgow have partnered to learn more about what is important in the lives of people with lived experience of learning disabilities and diabetes. We have developed a survey to gather information about how people with learning disabilities manage their diabetes and what their priorities are. We will use this information to help inform research and practice and address the issues that matter most to people with learning disabilities and diabetes. The survey is for adults with learning disabilities and diabetes and carers of people with learning disabilities and diabetes in the UK. It can be accessed using this link: https://uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0DSndLs5QgL0EPs

The survey will be open for responses until Friday 27 June 2025.

This has been approved.

 

[gail2]

hi can you define learning disabilities for this study please

 

[trophywench]

Yes - I've checked the info for participants and that does not give any suggestions as to what any of these learning disabilities might be called. It is true that one grandaughter was and still is dyslexic. Her own daughter certainly isn't that but she can't ever help little un with her homework. Mum has no prob with Sudoku, except reading the instructions about what they want you to do with your solution.

 

[Ieva DUK]

DUK have reached out to the researcher so we should have an answer in due course, thank you for flagging that!

 

[Ieva DUK]

This is what the researcher has come back with:

‘Any adult (18+) with a learning (intellectual) disability and diabetes (either Type 1 or Type 2) is eligible to take part. This includes people with Down’s syndrome, for example, but does not include people with autism or specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, unless that individual has a learning disability as well.’

 

[gail2]

thanks for letting us know that counts me out