Recruitment of the survey part of this study has gone better than expected. You may have seen this from the heart puzzle slowly but surely getting more complete, ahead of schedule! As of today only 14 more people are needed to complete the questionnaire’s to reach my original upper goal and it is only early March. I was hopeful that this would happen so at the end of last year I had started the process of submitting an amendment to both the University of Southampton and the Health Research Authority (HRA) Research Ethic committees (REC). The amended was approved and now we can continue recruiting until May, beyond 350 participants. The more people who complete the first phase of the study (questionnaires) the better an more detailed statistical analysis that we can complete.

None of this would be possible without the generosity and willingness of those who have been approached to help in this study to complete all three of the questionnaires and return them to us. The Research teams at all three of the sites who help identify those who are eligible to participant and support their participation and then enter the data into the database. We are grateful to your help and support. I am looking forward to the analysis and to sharing what we learn with you.