Do you have type 1 diabetes? Are you aged between 18 and 21? If so we'd love to hear from you. Or if you have friends or family that have type 1 diabetes then please feel free to forward this message on to them.
Having type 1 diabetes means that it is important to know how to keep safe when having alcohol. The Type 1 Diabetes Friend: Alcohol Guide is a free mobile app, aimed at helping young people find out what to do to keep safe and how alcohol can affect their body. As of September 22nd 2013, the app has now been downloaded 1,101 times worldwide (with 1,042 Apple and 59 Android downloads). This means that the user base is now large enough to do further research on its use and usefulness to young people with type 1 diabetes.
If you have Type 1 Diabetes and have already downloaded and are using the App - We want to hear from YOU! How useful has it been to you and can you provide some more information on how, why and when you have used it. When and why did you download it originally and do you have any suggestions for improving it.
New Users with Type 1 Diabetes - We want to hear from YOU too! Once you’ve downloaded and installed it onto your mobile phone (Apple or Android) and have used it for a month or more, then please feel free to let us know about your use of it.
Survey - The survey will take you around 15 minutes to complete. If you are able to provide more than a couple of sentences in describing your use of the app it would be much appreciated as this will make the survey data more useful to us. Thanks very much in advance for completing this survey as your feedback is very important for future development.
Access the survey: http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/bournemouth/t1dfriend1
(Please note that by completing this survey, you agree that your answers may be used in the researchers final dissertation and may also be reproduced in academic publications and presentations)
Downloading the App - The Type 1 Diabetes Friend: Alcohol Guide can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/type-1-diabetes-friend-alcohol/id582346932?l=en&mt=8&ign-mpt=uo=2
or the Google Play App Store for Android users:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...NvbS5hcGFwcHMudDFkZnJpZW5kYWxjb2hvbGd1aWRlIl0.
Having type 1 diabetes means that it is important to know how to keep safe when having alcohol. The Type 1 Diabetes Friend: Alcohol Guide is a free mobile app, aimed at helping young people find out what to do to keep safe and how alcohol can affect their body. As of September 22nd 2013, the app has now been downloaded 1,101 times worldwide (with 1,042 Apple and 59 Android downloads). This means that the user base is now large enough to do further research on its use and usefulness to young people with type 1 diabetes.
If you have Type 1 Diabetes and have already downloaded and are using the App - We want to hear from YOU! How useful has it been to you and can you provide some more information on how, why and when you have used it. When and why did you download it originally and do you have any suggestions for improving it.
New Users with Type 1 Diabetes - We want to hear from YOU too! Once you’ve downloaded and installed it onto your mobile phone (Apple or Android) and have used it for a month or more, then please feel free to let us know about your use of it.
Survey - The survey will take you around 15 minutes to complete. If you are able to provide more than a couple of sentences in describing your use of the app it would be much appreciated as this will make the survey data more useful to us. Thanks very much in advance for completing this survey as your feedback is very important for future development.
Access the survey: http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/bournemouth/t1dfriend1
(Please note that by completing this survey, you agree that your answers may be used in the researchers final dissertation and may also be reproduced in academic publications and presentations)
Downloading the App - The Type 1 Diabetes Friend: Alcohol Guide can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/type-1-diabetes-friend-alcohol/id582346932?l=en&mt=8&ign-mpt=uo=2
or the Google Play App Store for Android users:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...NvbS5hcGFwcHMudDFkZnJpZW5kYWxjb2hvbGd1aWRlIl0.
