De Montford University in Leicester are doing a survey as part of an NIHR (NEAT) funded project. NEAT is New and Emerging Applications of Technology and a forerunner of i4i, the present funding for health innovation.
Funding for the survey runs from 2008 to 2011 and is intended for developing a new kind of insulin pump that releases insulin in response to glucose.
The University is doing a survey that focuses on people’s attitudes and difficulties around their diabetes and keeping their glucose within normal tolerances. Also, they would like to find out about what kind of device would be acceptable in terms of invasiveness.
The survey was launched by Joan Taylor, Professor of Pharmaceutics Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University in March and they have had 250 responses so far, but they ideally need 1000. Fewer than 10 percent of their respondents are type 2 so they need more.
The University have a free post address and will supply envelopes to post out the survey to people if they do not have internet access.
There is a separate survey for people who use pumps which is also on the website. Both surveys are available as Word and pdf files, so that they can be typed or written onto and can be emailed back.
Both surveys are only for insulin users, not for those on tablets or diet treatment alone. People who use insulin as well as other treatments are very welcome to take part though.
The web site is: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/diabetes