Communicating cardiovascular disease risk to people with and without diabetes (COMCARDI)
Student researcher: Owen Taylor
We are conducting interviews with people from different backgrounds to help understand what visual methods work best for communicating individual disease risk for heart disease and stroke. Lots of different factors such as a person’s education, ethnicity, first language spoken and whether they have diabetes or not, can impact how best to communicate such information. Therefore, it is important that we speak to lots of different people to see what works and doesn’t work for them.
A person may encounter risk communication when speaking with a healthcare professional about different options to try and lower their risk for disease. If this information is not communicated effectively, a person may make decisions that negatively impact their health.
This research study is being conducted in the UK and Australia with community individuals and healthcare professionals.