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Project lead: Dr. Christa Scheidt-Nave, Dr. Thomas Ziese
Contact: Dr. Rebecca Paprott
The aim of the study is to collect population-representative data regarding information needs, risk perception, disease knowledge and utilization of health care services in context of diabetes. Therefore, in 2017 a telephone based health survey of 1500 adults with and 2500 adults without diabetes was conducted at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in cooperation with the company USUMA GmbH. The gained knowledge enables the specific targeting of information campaigns and the improvement of access to diabetes patients and healthy individuals with a high diabetes risk.
The study was approved by the data protection officer of the RKI and the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI). Furthermore the study received positive vote by the ethical commission of the Berlin Chamber of Physicians (Eth-23/17).
Duration: January 2017 – December 2017
Data source: Data of the conducted telephone survey
Project type: Research project
Commissioned / financed by: Funded by the Federal Ministry of Health
Cooperation partner: Charité University Hospital Berlin, Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA)
Date: 12.11.2018
