Featured in this case study: Medical & healthcare, Charity & not-for-profit, Market research online communities
The client, a leading breast cancer charity, was undertaking a strategic review of its patient helpline services, the organisational goal being, to increase usage of the helpline amongst those affected by breast cancer.
The charity was seeking to develop an updated evidence base to drive development of the helpline service around priority areas of need for a range of people and patients affected by the disease.
The client needed to engage with three distinct audiences – those with breast cancer, those affected by breast cancer, those with secondary or terminal breast cancer.
A research approach was needed that would allow patients to feel at ease sharing their experiences and needs, in terms of using helplines, and why they would or would not engage with this source of support.
DJS Research needed to ensure that primary breast cancer patients were not engaging with terminal breast cancer patients, for emotional wellbeing and safeguarding reasons.
Three separate online communities were ran, one for each distinct group, as follows:
The communities were live for two weeks each and covered a range of topics through a variety of engaging tasks and activities.
The community forum allowed a safe space for participants to share information as they wished, collecting different types of data from typed verbatim, to numeric and voice and video content of the lived experience.
The research uncovered barriers towards using healthcare helplines that had not previously been considered, and as such has been fundamental in informing, development and evolution of the helpline the past two years in terms of service, content and delivery, as well as communications to raise awareness and encourage wider use by a broader range of people; inbound traffic to the helpline has increased.
Featured in this case study: Medical & healthcare, Charity & not-for-profit, Market research online communities
The client, a leading breast cancer charity, was undertaking a strategic review of its patient helpline services, the organisational goal being, to increase usage of the helpline amongst those affected by breast cancer.
The charity was seeking to develop an updated evidence base to drive development of the helpline service around priority areas of need for a range of people and patients affected by the disease.
The research uncovered barriers towards using healthcare helplines that had not previously been considered, and as such has been fundamental in informing, development and evolution of the helpline the past two years in terms of service, content and delivery, as well as communications to raise awareness and encourage wider use by a broader range of people; inbound traffic to the helpline has increased.