HealthWise Wales Renewal 2025
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
354010
Contact name
Sunil Dolwani
Contact email
Research summary
HealthWise Wales
REC name
Wales REC 3
REC reference
25/WA/0058
Date of REC Opinion
17 Mar 2025
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
Data to be stored and data collection arrangements (maximum 200 words):Data for this project will be collected through a secure project website. We will ask participants who agree to join the study to provide information on their name, address, date of birth, gender, job, and ethnicity. We will also ask for details about how they live (their mood, how much physical exercise they take, smoking and alcohol habits) and what they think of the project in general and the project website. We will also ask that individuals give us permission to access and use information about them from their NHS records.We will use the answers to the questions given on the website, together with the information from the NHS records, to answer questions about health and wellbeing in Wales. We will use participants' contact details to:
• Contact individuals periodically to complete additional questions about their lifestyle, health and wellbeing.
• Access their NHS records, such as hospital admissions and visits to the GP.
• Get in touch with participants about specific studies that they might like to be a part of. For example, there may be new studies in the future that are relevant to them because they are a particular age or have a particular health condition. We will store the information given to us securely.Research programme
HealthWise Wales is a national initiative to involve large numbers of people in Wales with health and social care research. Our aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of the Welsh population, by engaging them in the research process. Such a study will allow us to investigate a wide range of social, environmental and biological determinants of health and wellbeing throughout individuals’ lives. This could lead to improved treatment, more effective services, and reduce differences in health between individuals and communities, by answering questions such as “Why are some people in Wales healthier than others even though they live in the same area?” or “Why are people admitted to hospital in Wales and what can we do so less people are admitted?” HealthWise Wales is a partnership between the public and the scientific community in Wales.The day to day running of the study will be done by a team of researchers based in Cardiff University.
Research database title
HealthWise Wales
Establishment organisation
Cardiff University
Establishment organisation address
University Secretary's Office
Cardiff
CF10 3AT