School students from all over Glasgow meet IHW researchers at Curiosity Live
Published: 28 June 2018
School students visited the Glasgow Science Centre and discussed treatment burden and healthy choices with IHW researchers as part of Curiosity Live in November 2019.
School students visited the Glasgow Science Centre and discussed treatment burden and healthy choices with IHW researchers as part of Curiosity Live in November 2019.
They were joined by an enthusiastic group of researchers from GPPC and Public Health including Yvonne Cunningham, Jordan Canning, Aghnaa Gayatri, Marianne McCallum, Ioana Stanciu, Ross McQueenie, David Blane and Selina Wu.
Researchers from General Practice and Primary Care used a set of giant scales to talk to teenagers about treatment burden. Treatment burden is the work people need to do to manage their illnesses.
On one side of the scales were ‘weights’ representing treatment burden, these were balanced by ‘capacity’ weights on the other side. Burden-weights included things like multiple appointments and form-filling, while capacity-weights included things like good public transport and strong friendship networks. The activity lead to good discussions with the students who came up with their own ideas to increase the capacity side of the scales.
The school students also played the ’Building Blocks of a Healthy Life’ game, stacking building blocks decorated with different foods and activities into a healthy life, and learning about cancer risk factors and healthy choices. This proved to be one of the more popular activities at Curiosity Live, as students competed with each other to build the tallest tower possible.
Curiosity Live ran over five days, attracting over 4000 visitors to the Science Centre. GPPC hosted a stand on the Friday, and were visited by three hundred students from Castlehead High School, Linwood High School, Mary Russell School, Park Mains High School, Notre Dame High School, Paisley Grammar, and Bannerman High School.
First published: 28 June 2018