Survey on diet, nutrition and health knowledge and awareness - Reminder!

[lynmynott]

Abdulrahman Alreshidi, a PhD student in human nutrition at the University of Glasgow, is conducting a survey on diet and knowledge and awareness of foods, nutrition and health.

Thyroid diseases are one of the most common medical conditions globally. Untreated thyroid disease causes cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol and harms individuals' physical and mental health. In women, thyroid disease might also result in miscarriages, infertility, premature birth, and irregular menstrual cycles. Thyroid diseases and their symptoms are well known by the general public, and sometimes by healthcare practitioners.

Iodine, a nutrient found in dairy and some fish, plays an important role in thyroid disease, but is not well known by the public. Understanding how people gain information about diet and (thyroid) health, to convert it into practice is important to inform awareness campaigns and medical education.

The survey explores the knowledge, awareness and practices of people with and without thyroid disease in the context of diet, nutrition and thyroid health by using an online survey asking relevant questions.

The questionnaire also asks about general health information (e.g. weight, height, health conditions) and personal information (e.g. age, gender, and partial postcode (allowing to identify in which region a location is, and whether the sample is evenly distributed geographically).

All data collected will be anonymised and not be sent to third partie

The survey will run until 30th January 2023.

Thyroid UK firmly believes that nutrition plays a key role in thyroid disease and this survey is important to understand how people view diet in the context of their thyroid health.

To take part in the survey go to:

bit.ly/DietandThyroidSurvey

or

glasgow-research.onlinesurv...

[Fruitandnutcase]

Just done this - takes a while and if you do it it will help to have a list of all the vitamins / minerals you take plus the quantities to hand.

[tattybogle]

done it ..... definitely a bit time consuming, and you need to get up and fetch your vitamin bottle from the kitchen (and your specs to read the label) .... but worth it just for the satisfaction of ticking " i find GP's less help than a patient forum' on the form

[turquoisea7]

What worries me about people campaigning for dietary iodine is that industry then starts adding it to everything. In countries where iodine is routinely added to salt there are within years many more thyroid problems, all the research shows. Here we are lucky our salt isn't routinely iodised, but some veggy milk makes are already adding it to all their milk. So once you're hypo and trying to avoid excess iodine it gets more and more difficult to find foods without it.