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Contact the study team using the details below to take part. If there are no contact details below please ask your doctor in the first instance.
Ms
Anne
Heaven
anne.heaven@bthft.nhs.uk
Chung
Fu
chung.fu@bthft.nhs.uk
Chung
Fu
chung.fu@bthft.nhs.uk
Ms
Anne
Heaven
anne.heaven@bthft.nhs.uk
Ms
Anne
Heaven
anne.heaven@bthft.nhs.uk
More information about this study, what is involved and how to take part can be found on the study website.
Disorders of bone density and structure
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We aim to improve primary-care for older women with osteoporosis.
Older women we spoke with previously felt unseen, unimportant, unheard and uninformed. These women felt that bone/joint health was an important issue for women aged 70+. Osteoporosis is a disease that makes bones more breakable and can lead to significant pain, disability and death, costing approximately £4.4 billion a year in the UK. Women are four times more likely to have osteoporosis than men and suffer fractures earlier. Osteoporosis care is poor in primary care even though good guidelines are available.
We will work with older women and healthcare professionals to help guide our research. We have already looked at published research and will build on this. We will identify what is important for both older women and professionals to inform our first interview questions. We will ask older women and healthcare professionals about the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. We will also ask them how they manage osteoporosis as a patient or care provider. At regular intervals, research staff will look at the interview findings first and then share their thoughts with older women and professionals. Together we will explore what the interviews mean. These discussions may change the questions we ask and who we interview next.
We will combine all the information from interviews to identify what works well and less well in osteoporosis care. We will check these findings against the guidelines. We will continue to work with older women and healthcare professionals to develop recommendations for improving care. We will also identify areas of further work.
We will share our recommendations with healthcare commissioners and produce a summary for a variety of professional networks. We will publish papers in journals aimed at healthcare professionals and produce a summary document and advice for older women to use.
Start dates may differ between countries and research sites. The research team are responsible for keeping the information up-to-date.
The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
Observational type: Qualitative;
You can take part if:
You may not be able to take part if:
OLDER WOMEN - Aged under 70 years; - Lacks capacity to consent to participate in research; - Resident in a care home; - Member of the co-production workshop. HCP - Not performing any NHS work - <12 months in NHS practice
Below are the locations for where you can take part in the trial. Please note that not all sites may be open.
Chung
Fu
chung.fu@bthft.nhs.uk
Ms
Anne
Heaven
anne.heaven@bthft.nhs.uk
Ms
Anne
Heaven
anne.heaven@bthft.nhs.uk
Ms
Anne
Heaven
anne.heaven@bthft.nhs.uk
Chung
Fu
chung.fu@bthft.nhs.uk
More information about this study, what is involved and how to take part can be found on the study website.
The study is sponsored by BRADFORD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST and funded by NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) .
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