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Bipolar Survey If you have clicked the link to this page I would like to thank you for being interested in helping others suffering from a mental health problem. I have been asked to put a link on my website for an international survey for people with bipolar and their carers. I do not usually do this on my website however I thought that if I can facilitate in getting as many people as possible to complete this survey and in turn this helps and shapes the future care of Bipolar then that has only got to be a good thing, after all if there were surveys being done on PTSD that would help future access to care and improve the service sufferers get then I would be bending over backwards to get others to help such a thing. I hope that this helps? I have below put the full email request along with the link...
Dear Andy,
I
was wondering if you would be kind enough to highlight/post on web/circulate
a new international survey for people with bipolar and their
carers-though not strictly related to PTSD. The aim of the survey is to
gain a patient/carer perspective (rather than clinical) on important issues.
We would be happy to share the results of this survey with your organisation
when they are available. The
survey is being conducted by PatientView,
in association with the World
Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) and GAMIAN-Europe,
as well as the European family and carer federation, EUFAMI, which
also welcomes any new initiative for patients which will lead to a better
understanding of Bipolar Depression. and help an exciting new project to
create a global website for people living with bipolar depression. The
intention is that the website will be designed by people with bipolar
themselves. The
survey hopes to find out: The
survey is due to close on Monday 30th June 2008. The
survey is being conducted online via a specialist survey website to make sure
that the responses of all contributorsremain
completely anonymous to the survey administrator, PatientView
(unless a person prefers to be attributed in the survey results as a
contributor to the survey). No IP addresses or email details will be visible
to the survey administrator, PatientView (unless a person chooses to specify
such information in their survey response). To
thank people for participating in the survey, PatientView will email every
participant a PDF of the survey findings (if they are happy to provide an
email address), which will be available September 2008. People who have
remained completely anonymous to the survey will be able to obtain the survey
results from your group, or (after the survey results have been released into
the public domain) from the media who show interest in this work. If
you have any questions about the survey, please contact Louise Oatham on
0044-(0)1547-520-965 or info@patient-view.com. TO
OFFER YOUR OPINIONS TO THE Bipolar, JUST CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW Thank
you very much for your advice. From Dr Alexandra Wyke About
PatientView PatientView
is an independent researcher and publisher that works closely with patient
organisations. Wales-based PatientView has conducted hundreds of surveys of
patients and patient organisations over the years. These surveys, and the
projects they have informed, have contributed to changes in government
policy, promoted patient-public consultation, supported academics and
researchers, and raised public awareness of specific disease areas.
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Definition
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a natural emotional reaction to a deeply shocking and disturbing experience. It is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation. |