Participate in Research

Online opportunity

Help researchers develop a diabetes phone application that works for you!

General information

Australian Diabetes Council receives requests from researchers asking for help in finding suitable participants for their projects. Each request for scientific research is assessed by our Research Advisory Committee.

You can nominate to receive requests for research surveys when you join Australian Diabetes Council as a new member or when you renew your membership. Simply tick the box on your form stating 'Yes, I’d be happy to receive diabetes surveys'.

If you would like to be included on our mailing list for ‘survey-willing' members, please phone 1300 342 238 or email membership@diabetesnsw.com.au with the message 'I would like to participate in surveys' along with your name and Australian Diabetes Council membership number. If you are not sure if you have previously nominated this on your membership record, please phone 1300 136 588.

You are free at any time to change your mind, simply let us know by phone, letter or email.

Remember... each time that you receive a request approved by us, it is accompanied by a cover letter from Australian Diabetes Council on our official letterhead. This request is an INVITATION ONLY. You are not obliged to participate and your decision has no bearing on your Diabetes Australia membership. Each request is treated individually, so you may like to be involved in one but not interested in another one. The decision to participate is entirely yours.

The letter from the researcher will have a contact name and number for you to either find out more information and/or to participate. It is best to use this number to find out more information if you are interested.

The Trial to Reduce the Incidence of type 1 diabetes in the Genetically at Risk (TRIGR)

Do you, your partner or any of your children have type 1 diabetes? Are you pregnant and expecting before December 31, 2006? If you answered yes to both questions, a groundbreaking international trial needs your help.

Launched in Australia in October 2003, the Trial to Reduce the Incidence of type 1 diabetes in the Genetically at Risk (TRIGR), aims to find out whether cows’ milk found in infant formulas could be a trigger for type 1 diabetes in babies at a high genetic risk.

The first year of the trial uncovered differences between Australian babies’ diabetes risk factors compared with the rest of the world, and now some new findings have come to light.

While Sydney has one of the highest rates of type 1 diabetes in the world, the majority of children born into the TRIGR trial have been born with a low genetic risk for the disease.

The researchers are now asking: if babies born in Sydney families with a history of diabetes don’t have known high risk genetic markers shortly after they’re born, what causes type 1 diabetes to develop later?

The study now needs a new group of pregnant women. If you would like to help researchers learn more about preventing type 1 diabetes in children, please contact Nurse Coordinator Glenda Fraser on (02) 9845 3201, or visit the website www.trigr.org