Share your experience of Online menopause activism – Pre-seminar survey
By completing this survey activity you will:
- Help us to provide you with a better educational experience at the upcoming Women’s and Children’s Health Update and related educational resources, especially for the sessions on menopause that we have lined up for you!
- Earn 0.5 hours of CPD in the Reviewing Performance (RP) category, and
- Assist The Department of General Practice at The University of Sydney collect important research data on this modern phenomenon
Menopause experts who participated in the design of this survey
Dr Terri Foran
Prof Rod Baber
Dr Sonia Davison
Dr Jane Elliott AM
Topic Summary
The management of the menopause has become a topic frequently discussed on social media, chat groups and influencer websites. This has led to a phenomenon that many call “online menopause activism”. Common themes include the advocacy of hormone therapies in doses higher than usually recommended and for indications which lack reliable evidence of efficacy.
The aim of this activity is to further inform future menopause-related educational initiatives in primary care by helping us to understand GP awareness, knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and practices related to menopause and the way that online menopause activism affects it.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the number of patients in the GP’s practice that warrant discussion about the positive and negative impacts of online menopause activism
- Distinguish how best to tackle misinformation arising from online menopause activism
- Identify what resources, knowledge, skills, and referral pathways are needed for the GP to be more capable to deal with the patient questions and pressures that arise due to online menopause activism
Disclosure Statement
We invite you to participate in a short anonymous survey about the impact of menopause blogs and social media information on general practice patient consultations. Should you agree to participate, some of your deidentified demographic information (age; gender; state of main practice; location of main practice (metro/regional/rural); hours worked per week) will be used in the analysis, but your name will not be given to the research team. Your participation is entirely voluntary and choosing not to will not impact the outcome of your assessment in any way. Full information about the survey is available here.
When you have read the survey information, please click on the link below to access the survey. By completing the survey, you are consenting to:
- Your deidentified survey data being used for future research, including by students for their degrees
- Your deidentified demographic characteristics being given to the research team
- Your deidentified aggregated data being disseminated on the Healthed website, in peer-reviewed journal articles, and/or in conference presentations
