Study on the forum, already available.

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We are about to meet 5 years of operation of the forum.

We have thought about a study on how participation in the forum has influenced for each of you.
For this we have designed a brief survey of 35 questions about various issues that relate your diabetes and the forum.

The link to the survey:

The survey is anonymous, we do not need or ask for personal data.
So you have the maximum freedom to answer the questions.
We do not care if you participate more or less usually in the forum, we intend to know how useful you have been the forum.

We have no commercial or profit courage with this work.
The results will be presented in this same forum.With the results we will also contribute to describe the reality about the diabetes and social networks relationship in meetings, congresses, forums, studies, publications, etc.

Do not forget that except for the active Facebook groups, we are the only forum of patients with diabetes in Spain.

Any questions or suggestion can send me a private or a mail to

Thank you very much for answering the survey and thank you very much for your participation in the forum.

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11/05/2012 12:30 a.m.
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Owash seems like a great idea.Both Juan Luis and I have already sent you the survey.We hope to receive many.

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11/06/2012 4:50 p.m.

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Me and yes, encourage you to participate.It would be important that from here you could do a good study !!!

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11/07/2012 5:53 a.m.
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Sent my survey also, it seems great and interesting.

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11/07/2012 6:42 a.m.
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Survey made.Very interesting that you want to know the results.
I do not understand much but I think it would participate more if the survey option in the general index came out, I do not understand much of managing forums but I launch the suggestion.

On the other hand, Owash do you have any date to close the survey?

Thank you all for being here.

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11/07/2012 8:19 a.m.
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I will see if I leave the message as fixed in all subforos and have more visibility.

Quim, I would like to close the survey in the middle of December or the end of the year, as late.

The goal is to have 100 surveys ... It would be a statistical sample of a good size.

As I point in the first message, except on Facebook, there is no other Spanish diabetes forum.
Therefore, the study we are trying to do is the first of this type that is done in Spain.

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11/07/2012 11:23 a.m.
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That's, Owash.M e liked it is direct and brief.
The link only works here, in the other places it does not go ...

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Regina
11/07/2012 6:25 p.m.

Hija de 35 años , diabética desde los 5. Glico: normalmente de 6 , pero 6,7 la última ( 6,2 marcaba el Free)
Fiasp: 4- 4- 3 Toujeo: 20

  

We already have a third of the objective ... anyma to answer, which costs very little time.

Very interesting your contributions and suggestions.

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11/10/2012 3:15 a.m.
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Come on, foreros and foreras, kill the survey that are 5 na minutillos ...

Let's see if this week we can reach 50 surveys.

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11/12/2012 12:34 p.m.
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I already sent mine.Thank you for maintaining this great forum!

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11/15/2012 10:44 a.m.

Desde los 8 años con mi amiga Diabetes, llevamos de amistad 55 años...pa'lante siempre.

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Si algún día te sientes pequeño, inútil ultrajado y deprimido, recuerda que un día fuiste el espermatozoide mas rápido y victorioso de tu grupo.

  

We are in 44 surveys ... There are still many to get to the goal .... Anyme, answer ...

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11/16/2012 1 p.m.
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We are just in the middle of the objective .... We have 50 surveys collected, we would like to reach 100 to be able to do a great job with that data.

Whether you usually participate and otherwise, you should fill in the survey ...

The forum not only serves to write but also to read, I am sure that many people read us and participate.You can also answer the survey ... There are 5 minutillos of nothing.

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11/22/2012 12:08 p.m.
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I have already done mine, but I must say that there are questions that do not offer the range of answers that cover all the options.In several of them I have had to mark one that did not correspond to what I should say.You have to cover the options.And if it is not possible, always leave an option to fill out.

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HanSolo
11/22/2012 5:04 p.m.

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Thanks Gon, I appreciate your collaboration.

You are right, perhaps there would be questions that should have specified more, but the intention is to extract data and if I left the answers very open I could find a lot of information that I could not relate.

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11/23/2012 12:19 p.m.
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Bieennnn we are already in 57 surveys collected ... that at 25 pesetas each is 1425 pesetas :)) :))
It is a joke, that we do not collect any money from this.

To all who read us sporadically, you can participate in the survey, it is anonymous, we do not register any type of data, not even the IP

One more push and we planted in the 70s already ... which would be an already respectable sample.

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12/01/2012 2:05 a.m.
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Last week of survey collection ...

We are in 61 ... far from the initial (ambitious) objective of 100.
But enough to do a good job with the data.

Thank you all who have bothered to answer.

And to those who have not filled the survey yet, please do it.
Even if you never write, opinions are always well received.

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12/09/2012 2:10 p.m.
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We have reached the end of survey collection.

65 valid surveys, it has been the number with which we have finally stayed.
Round number
As I said before the goal of 100 was ambitious, we have not achieved it, but with 65 we can do a quite ahead study.

I thank you all for the collaboration.

Now the results analysis phase begins.
Then we will prepare the conclusions and finally write the study.

We will keep you informed.

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12/15/2012 1:38 a.m.
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I am going to expose the survey results.

I have started the second phase that is the analysis of themes of the forum.
When I have finished this second phase I will hang it here too.

In Red I point out what has caught my attention.

Start.

I have finally left in 62 validated surveys.
I have ruled out 2 because many answers were missing and it was not worth including them.

1.-
65% had a glycosilada above 7 before knowing the forum.
Of them 27% was above 8%

2.-
Time after participating in the forum, the percentage greater than glycosilada is reduced to 12%, only 7% is above 8
38% is below 6.5

3.-
73% of the participants believe that the forum has directly influenced their glycosilada improvement

4.-
As for the glycemic stability , 1 in 3 participants remains stable in their glycemia, before and after participating in the forum.
The rest is still the same, or high or low

5.-
88% clearly identifies their type of diabetes

6.-
Only 33% of the participants know the Diabetes Modly and 52%

7.-
As for tracing a hypoglycemia
Only 53%, before participating in the forum, traced quick+slow HC.
After participating in the forum, 88% dates back with rapid HC+slow

8.-
Lower a hyperglycemia
I emphasize that 17% did not corrected hyperglycemia before entering the forum and 2% continues with the same behavior after entering the forum.
The correction factor has been learned by 35% with the educator and in 27% in the forum

9.-
Type 2 Diabetes
Only 3 answers, of those 3, in 2 do not know how their pills act

10.-
Diabetes and pregnancy
The most valued is to meet other girls in the same situation and feel accompanied/understood from distance.
No one has pointed out the improvement in the couple's relationship: D

11.-
Glucagon
77% have learned their use with the educator and 13% in the forum

12.-
Continuous glycemia meters
57% met their existence for the forum and sought more information.30% met its existence outside the forum.
The information that has been most valued from the forum is (in order importance): price, handling and operation, inconveniences, availability in Spain

13.-
74% score above 8 the information obtained in the forum on the insulin pumps .
They value the advantages, improve dressings and shapes Subject the pump, operation and handling.

14.-
48% have learned the insulin sensitivity index by the educator, compared to 30% in the forum.
13% do not know what it is

15.-
53% have learned in the forum the areas of rotating the injection and 49% not to reuse them.

16.-
57% do not replace the lancetas often, although they know it should do it more.

17.-
glucometers
33% continues with the same glucometer model since it entered the forum.
38% changed it by indication of your doctor/educator
Only 7% changed it because it saw a better model in the forum.

18.-
62% have never spoken with their endocrine of their participation in the forum
20% have ever shared some forum information with the endocrine

19.-
63% have never talked to their educator of their participation in the forum
Only 15% of educators have ever commented on the participation in the forum.

20.-
60% of participants have never recommended any web on the Internet on diabetes
15% afformize that they told them that the information on the Internet was not very trustworthy.

21.-
Half of the participants consider that to control diabetes the educator is the most useful

22.-
90% have learned the diet by portions with the educator;Of these, 33% have perfected the information in the forum.

23.-
95% know the Food Glycemic Index ;Of them half did with the educator, 27% improved with the forum and 23% learned exclusively in the forum.

24.-
82% condemn that their participation in the forum has improved their mood regarding diabetes.

25.-
In general, 83% the forum serves to know the experiences of others and 60% know other people in their same situation.

26%
86% would prefer a forum with patients, educators and endocrine
Only 7% would prefer it only with patients

27.-
The problems to travel by plane is the topic most indicated by all participants, of which they have dealt with the forum.
At a certain distance: the copayment, health insurance, nº glycemic strips, minusvalia certificate

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01/05/2013 5:42 a.m.
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Now that the forum has been updated, this survey could be reviewed and see how to start some of the conclusions, do not you think?

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07/19/2013 5:13 a.m.
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