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If you would like to get involved with our research, you can join our registry. We will then get in touch with you if we think any research opportunities would be suited towards you, now or in the future.
This may be getting involved with a public advisory group discussion session or we may approach you about a study we are running that we think you may be eligible to join, based on the information that you have told us.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I join?
- Why do you need my contact details?
- Why have you asked me where I live?
- Why have you asked me questions about my medical history?
- Why have you asked me questions about my ethnicity?
We will shortly be sharing the sign-up links for the IJUMP registry, please check back soon.
We ask you for your contact details so that we can share research opportunities with you. You can let us know the way that you would like to be contacted (e.g. by email or phone) and we will use that method to get in touch.
Sometimes we might run a study across multiple sites in the United Kingdom so we may ask you what region of the country you live in so that we can let you know if we are running relevant studies in your area.
If you do decide to participate in one of our studies, we may ask you for your address so that we can send study documentation or resources to your home.
Some of our studies might be looking at certain groups of people e.g. people who have osteoarthritis in their hands or people who have had a previous knee ligament injury. Therefore, we ask these questions to help identify whether you would be suited to specific types of studies and so that we don’t approach you for studies that are not relevant to you.
We sometimes recruit to studies which focuses on individuals in a certain age range for scientific reasons, so we ask for your age so that we can look at this.
Hormonal changes can affect joints, so we might also ask you questions about whether you take any hormone-containing medications e.g. Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) or hormonal contraceptives.
We recognise that there can be barriers for some underserved groups to access healthcare and health research. We want to reduce the health inequalities gap in research that can affect different ethnicities and ensure that our research includes a diverse range of participants that is representative of our diverse population. Therefore, we ask these questions so that we can make sure that we recruit participants who come from different backgrounds.