Type Two diabetes research

[Julie Bowling]

Hi, I am a MSc Health Psychology student from the University of Central Lancashire. I am currently running a study to explore the relationships between mood, quality of life, health behaviours and risk perceptions to determine whether these differ depending on length of diagnosis of type two diabetes.
If you are over 18 and have a diagnosis of type two diabetes please follow the link below to the questionnaire. Questionnaires can take around 15 minutes to complete.
There is also the option to take part in an informal one-to-one 30 minute interview for those who live in and around the Preston, Lancs area.
Thank you
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3316913/Type-2-Diabetes-Questionnaire

 

[Northerner]

This has been approved, please help Julie if you can 🙂

 

[Bubbsie]

Done

 

[zuludog]

I consider myself to be fairly well educated and literate, but some of those questions were confusing - strange wording or double negatives
I gave up at just over halfway through

 

[Jeandp]

Done. Know what you mean @zuludog

 

[Mark Parrott]

Done, but found the way it was worded quite confusing in places.

 

[Ljc]

Done. I found some of the question a bit confusing too

 

[Andy HB]

My glucose levels are always below 140mg%

Was the point at which I gave up too.

There was another question about pre-existing conditions either due or not due to diabetes. Because the survey is about type 2 diabetes, any pre-existing conditions must, by definition, not be due to diabetes!

I am beginning to worry about these surveys. I am always keen to help, but unless their standard improves, I will simply avoid contributing. Any knowledge gleaned from them has to be very suspect.

Sorry

Andy

 

[Julie Bowling]

Thank you so much for your responses. I understand some of the questions are a little obscure, the majority are taken from other professional published studies, this is so I have something reliable with a scoring system in order to make sense of the results. Any further help would be very much appreciated. Thanks again, Julie

 

[trophywench]

It would be a damn good idea Julie, for all Universities to do what Warwick Uni did, when they were doing a lot of diabetes research. They set up a user group led by one of the lecturers involved, comprising of local diabetics of all types sorts and varieties and/or their carers. Every bit of research, questionnaires, surveys, leaflets whatever was run past the group to pick flies with and make helpful suggestions.

From the sublime - large study of possible too aggressive medication of folk with a terminal prognosis in nursing homes (eg continuing to feed statins to people actively dying from a brain tumour within a couple of months) to the ridiculous - things like tiny font printed in yellow on a white shiny background, for distribution to folk with eye problems.

Exactly what do you want to find out and exactly why do you want this info? Instead of asking this - why don't you ask that, because that way you'll get the correct and therefore, useful, response. Change that word - people won't understand that one, etc.

At this stage the researcher or student would have overall ethical approval for the actual purpose of the thing - but not for the wording of the bumpff. But - it couldn't go for final ethical, or for FUNDING, without the Group's approval.