Health beliefs of people who have one sibling with an autoimmune disease

03 January 2018

This study aims to explore health beliefs and behaviours of people who have one sibling with an autoimmune disease, but not a personal diagnosis themselves.
Autoimmune diseases include rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Hashimoto's, Graves' disease, psoriasis, coeliac, vasculitis, Sjögren's syndrome, Addison's disease and more.
The study usually takes 10 - 15 mins, involves selecting choices and writing up your own responses

Keywords

• University of Surrey
• health
• Pschology
• autoimmune disease
• diabetes
• arthritis
• multiple sclerosis
• lupus
• thyroid
• health beliefs
• health behaviours

Ethical approval

Approved by the University of Surrey, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Ethics Committee on the 25th October 2017.

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