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www.dipex.org. Sue Ziebland DIPEx Research Group University of Oxford. DIPEx (personal experiences of health and illness). An electronic multimedia resource available on the internet www.dipex.org and DVD ‘Stand alone’ qualitative interview studies of illness experiences
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www.dipex.org Sue Ziebland DIPEx Research Group University of Oxford
DIPEx (personal experiences of health and illness) • An electronic multimedia resource available on the internet www.dipex.org and DVD • ‘Stand alone’ qualitative interview studies of illness experiences • Q&As and evidence based information
Completed DIPEx sites: • depression prostate cancer bowel cancer • breast cancer cervical screening breast screening • testicular cancer lung cancer ovarian cancer • cervical cancer living with dying epilepsy • heart failure hypertension heart attack • chronic pain pregnancy dementia (carers) • congenital heart disease (parents) antenatal screening • RA
DIPEx research methods • literature and field review, advisory panel • wide sample of people from all over UK - at different stages and from different backgrounds • 40-50 interviews at home • unstructured and semi-structured sections • digital video and audio recorded • Ethics approval for broadcasting, teaching and research
Who uses DIPEx? • Approx one million hits per month • Patients, their families and the general public • Teachers – medical students, nurses, social science, research methods and health policy • Researchers (secondary analysis – archive for social science & history of medicine) • Health professionals & policy makers (what issues are important to patients) - NICE • Patient representatives (e.g. on committees)
www.youthhealthtalk.org • teenage cancer • sexual health • diabetes • epilepsy
DIPEx funding( more needed!) • Ethical funding policy – no advertising on site • Funding for individual ‘conditions’ from health charities (e.g. ARC, Alzheimer’s Society, Cancer Research UK, BUPA Foundation, BHF, Macmillan) and trusts (e.g. Citrina, Welton and Warburg) • Department of Health, Section 64, National Screening Committee • Donations to the DIPEx charity
More information from The Website: www.dipex.org & DIPEx, University Department of Primary Health Care Institute of Health Sciences Oxford OX3 7LF Tel + 44 (0) 1865 226672 Email: info@dipex.org