Exploring Younger Women’s Understanding of Cardiovascular Risk (v1.0)

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Exploring the understanding and perception of cardiovascular risk in younger women and their perceptions of factors influencing behaviour change in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease

• IRAS ID

  239374

• Contact name

  Randula Haththotuwa

• Contact email

  r.haththotuwa@keele.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Keele University

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 11 months, 31 days

• Research summary

  What we are doing?
  We aim to look at how women understand their risk of heart disease and stroke and what influences them to change their behaviour to reduce their risk. We aim to do this by interviewing younger women aged, 40-55 years.

  Who are we working with?
  We will be working with local general practices to recruit women in to the study. We will also be working with women through the Patient Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) group.

  Why are we doing it?
  We are particularly interested in younger women. Over the last 40 years, there has been a fall in the number of people suffering or dyeing from heart disease and stroke in the general population. Yet, we have been less successful in reducing this in younger women . This might be because younger women have had less success in reducing the risk factors that cause heart disease and stroke.

  We see that younger women are less physically active. They have also had less success in stopping smoking compared to men. More so, cholesterol and high blood pressure are not so well-controlled in women and younger people. So, we need to find out better ways of managing younger women’s risk factors.

  What are the benefits?
  We hope that by looking in to younger women’s own understanding and views we can tailor care given to younger women. We hope the what we find will help GPs and practice nurses. So they are able to better support younger women to reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke.

• REC name

  East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  18/EM/0183

• Date of REC Opinion

  11 Jul 2018

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion