Currently, the UIC-Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center is conducting a telephone survey on behalf of the Chicago Southeast Diabetes Community Action Coalition (Southeast Diabetes Coalition), which is committed to reducing diabetes disparities in Chicago Southeast side community. For the survey, selected interviewers will be asking people about their health, diabetes and other related issues between November 2006 and January 2007. Interviewers have been trained in research and confidentiality issues. Also, the telephone survey has been approved by the UIC Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Confidentiality is a big issue in this survey and interviewers will not ask the names of the members of interviewed household. We assure that all information collected from participants will be safely maintained and used only for the purpose of the study. It will never be released in any form in which individuals can be identified. Likewise, participation in the survey is totally voluntary and interviewed participants have the right to refuse questions or terminate the telephone survey at any moment without affecting their relationship with UIC or the Southeast Diabetes Coalition.

The telephone survey will only take a few minutes; however, its findings help us to understand what the community knows about health, as well as what resources we need to improve health programs, especially regarding diabetes in the Southeast community. The opinions of individuals are very important to us because they represent the opinions of hundreds of people in the community. The information that we will collect over the telephone will help us to document the health problems in the community and to what degree people is knowledgeable of the Southeast Diabetes Coalition.

People living in the Southeast Chicago area are invited to participate in this survey that uses random dialling software. This means that opportunities for being surveyed are random ? nobody knows who may have the chance of being interviewed. We encourage people to participate in this interesting survey that only requires picking up the telephone and giving us a few minutes of your time. If you need further information on this research, you can call Dr. Aida Giachello, who is the principal investigator, at 312-413-7409.

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