An interventional study of PLS and Blogshot in Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, sponsored by University of Split, School of Medicine. Completed at 1 site in Croatia. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 99 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-09-25.
Sponsored by University of Split, School of Medicine · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
Participants will receive in random order on format of brief description of systematic review summary on health intervention. One group will receive standard plain language summary, while another will receive Cochrane blog shot, containing only few information about the efficacy of the intervention. After reading, their task will be to answer several questions about the material they have read.
University of Split, School of Medicine is the lead sponsor of 49 studies on the registry; 16 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Plain abstract about the Cochrane systematic review.
Other: PLS
Blogshot presentation of the results of Cochrane systematic review.
Other: Blogshot
Participants will have to read standard textual information about the conducted systematic review (approximately 500 words)
Participants will have to read the blogshot information about the results of the Cochrane systematic review (approximately 100 words)
Understanding
Number of the correct answers about the content of the summary, which will consist of four multiple choice questions (with four possible answers where only one is correct, for each question) about the text the participants are reading. Questions will be developed by research team and revised by expert in health communication. The scale ranges from 0-4, where greater score indicates better understanding of the material.
Time frame: 3 months
Reading experience
Likert type scale 1-10 (1 indicating low preference for current presentation type, 10 indicating absolute preference for the current presentation type.
Time frame: 3 months
Health numeracy
5 questions about the numerical tasks placed in medical content, total score is number of correct answers on those questions. The five questions are part of Numeracy Understanding in Medicine Instrument (Schapira et al, 2012), and we will translate only the questions focusing on Probability section. Cronbach's alpha in previous research was 0.86 (Schapira et al, 2012). The questions will be revised by independent translator and back translated to English.
Time frame: 3 months
Plan to share: No
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