National Surveys
Please fill in our survey
The Atrial Fibrillation Association provides information, support and access to established, new and innovative treatments for Atrial Fibrillation (AF).
By completing the short, confidential and anonymous questionnaire regarding your experiences with Atrial Fibrillation, you will be helping AFA gather evidence about and related to AF. Please be reassured that neither your name nor contact details will be recorded in this survey, but your assistance will help to better inform AFA of the prevalence and current care experienced by AF patients.
Support from health professionals for people with AF
A research study is looking for people with AF to complete an online questionnaire to highlight the types of support that people with AF want to receive from health professionals involved in their care. If the types of support can be identified, this will provide an opportunity to help improve care for people with AF.
AF Services, what is your opinion?
The purpose of this research study, being carried out by Cardiac Assistant Director, Michelle Bull, is to find out more about the support that people with an irregular heart rhythm would like to receive from health professionals.
Information from the questionnaire will be analysed and used to find out more about the type of support people with atrial fibrillation would like to receive from their healthcare professionals. Information from this study will help improve the care of people with an irregular heart rhythm.
Findings from the study will be published and made readily available. A summary will be published in a future AFA bulletin.
You do not have to provide your name and address unless you wish to be sent a summary of the findings. All responses will be handled in confidence and the handling, processing, storage and destruction of information will be in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 1998. Your views will be made anonymous and it will not be possible to identify anyone from the research.
The research is being organised by the University of Hertfordshire. All research at the University of Hertfordshire is reviewed by an Ethics Committee to protect your safety, wellbeing and dignity. This study has been reviewed and approved by the University's Nursing, Midwifery and Social Care Ethics Committee.
Self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation therapy
Are you about to start or are you already self-testing your INR? Would you like to take part in a research study? The Department of Primary Health Care at Oxford University is carrying out a research study on self-testing of INR and is looking for participants. For further information, please contact Sally Tyndel on: 01865 289361 or casm-monitoring@dphpc.ox.ac.uk.
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Tenesee project for a large public access database of unbiased anecdotal data about Arrhythmia treatments.
Arrhythmia patients who are currently taking anti-arrhythmiuc drugs are invited by a Tenesee project in conjunction with rateadrug.com to collect primary user data about side effects and benefits from commonly used treatments for Arrhythmia. The goal is to build a large, public access database of unbiased, anecdotal data about Arrhythmia treatments.
The project team would like to let both patients and practitioners know about how they can participate in or benefit from the project. Users can add their experiences with a treatment and learn more about how the treatment is affecting them by taking a short, confidential survey. They can also use RateADrug to compare aggregate data for different Arrhythmia treatments- both conventional and alternative (http://rateadrug.com/Arrhythmia-Irregular-Heartbeat-symptoms-feedback.aspx) - and forward the results of their own surveys to their doctors or family members.
Rateadrug is an independent data gathering and information website that does not accept funding or advertisement from drug companies.