Health seeking behaviours of families with a type 1 diabetic child
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Factors influencing the health seeking behaviours of families attending a paediatric type 1 diabetes clinic
IRAS ID
228020
Contact name
S Krishnaratne
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 2 months, 23 days
Research summary
The research will explore the health seeking behaviours of families attending the paediatric diabetes clinic. Children with type 1 diabetes are already at higher risk of cardiovascular diseases and many of these children have additional risk factors such as high cholesterol and blood pressure. Rather than solely focus on reducing the cardiovascular risk among these children, this research will aim to understand the behaviour of families and help the service improve health promotion strategies to the families. 10-15 families who are attending a review clinic appointment will be recruited in the clinic waiting area, for an interview with the researcher, within a 4 week time period for data collection. It will ask questions that are not routinely collected, such as ethnicity, assess deprivation score from where they live, find out whether english is an additional language, the family history of cardiovascular risk factors and the activity level of the household. This information will supplement the open questions related to smoking attitudes, activity levels, intake of healthy foods and their view of attending group programmes and support required from the diabetes team. Any parent/guardian with a child attending for a clinic paediatric diabetes review would be eligible. Newly diagnosed patients would not be eligible as they will already have a lot to take in at their first clinic appointment; teenagers attending on their own would not be eligible as consent is required from a parent/guardian to provide information about the behaviours of their family. The research will be explained while families are waiting for their appointment and the interview will last around 40 minutes in total, before and if necessary after their scheduled clinic appointment.
REC name
London - Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/LO/1204
Date of REC Opinion
20 Jul 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion