Hearing disability in diabetes

Wai Piu Chong, Postgraduate Student, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester discusses accessing Research for the Future to support his research.

“My study assessed hearing disability in diabetic patients and I had an awesome experience working with Research for the Future and people registered with their Help BEAT Diabetes campaign.

“The Help BEAT Diabetes campaign has a very well-maintained database of diabetic patients who are very enthusiastic about diabetes research and very keen to know more about diabetes research. Many patients wanted to contribute to the development of knowledge about the condition and volunteered without any hesitation. Working with such volunteers was consequently a stimulating and rewarding experience for me.

“Equally enthusiastic were the Research for the Future staff. They were very helpful, responsive and receptive to my requests around invitation frequency and selection criteria and acted upon my needs very efficiently. The invite rate was controlled very precisely so we didn’t end up having too few or too many participants for the study.

“I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to the team for all the work they have done for my study, it made recruitment hassle-free! We received contact from our minimum patient target of 5 in just 3 days and our target of 10 two days later. In short, Research for the Future provides a very useful platform between the researchers and the diabetic patients, and overall it was definitely a very pleasant experience working with them.”