The CHI Study* – Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (
ARCSHS), La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society Faculty of Health Sciences
215 Franklin Street, Melbourne Victoria VIC 3000 Australia
Ph: 0392855353 Fax: 0392855220
Welcome to The CHI Study
CHI (pronounced ‘kai’) is a national follow up study which will chart the impact of hepatitis C on the lives of people overtime – whether or not they seek treatment. The project aims to recruit three thousand or more people across Australia and will be web-based. When people are recruited to the study, they will complete a baseline questionnaire where they are asked about their health and wellbeing, their social and economic circumstances, and aspects of living with hepatitis C, including decisions about treatment and management and the impact of hepatitis C on health, work and family situations.
Follow up, which will utilise an email reminder system that will be de-linked from the information participants provide, will generally occur at six-monthly intervals and more frequently where people are undergoing pivotal experiences (such as coming to terms with a recent diagnosis or undergoing treatment). What follows, is a summary of the sort of information CHI will collect when people are recruited.
Follow up questionnaires will be based largely on the information collected at baseline, but the questions will be focused on changes that may have occurred in the participant’s life since the last survey and will be more tailored to their reported circumstances (e.g. participants who remain untreated; who are currently on, or are scheduled, for treatment; who were more recently diagnosed or reinfected; or who had a poor treatment outcome).There are aspects of the questions which we need to keep standard, so that we can compare the population of people with hepatitis C to that of other populations. This means that there are some questions which have to be asked, and asked in specific ways.
http://www.chistudy.org.au/
http://www.chistudy.org.au/
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