None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Feeling informed about research seems to correlate with positive attitudes towards researchers and greater trust in researchers. However, many people feel they are not informed enough about ongoing research. 86% of the Australian population seems to be somewhat or very interested in health and medical research suggesting that the population would be rather receptive if we present the information in an acceptable way. Formal peer reviewed publications are lacking in this topic. Recruitment of participants to research projects depends on a reasonable interest for research among the general population. The interest for research among the general population in north Queensland is not yet elucidated. Furthermore, any activity that may increase the general population's interest in health care related research might have a positive influence on recruitment to future research projects. This project aim to estimate: 1) What proportion of patients in an ED waiting room in North Queensland express an interest in knowing about current health and medical research in their surroundings? 2) Do patients express any appreciation of being informed about current health and medical research in the surroundings by an automated information presentation? 3) What is the potential effect on interest in health related research by actively presenting information to the general public using large TV screens?
Interventions
A large TV screen is put up in the waiting room at the emergency department (ED) waiting-room. It is linked to a device presenting an extract from a project database of local current health or medical related research. A software presents one project at the time rotating with a 3D-like graphics and the information displayed is automatically updated. The type of information displayed is:
a) Title adapted for lay persons.
b) Brief summary adapted for lay persons.
c) Name of principal investigator
A large TV screen is put up in the waiting room at the emergency department (ED) waiting-room. It is linked to a device presenting an extract from a project database of local current health or medical related research. A software presents one project at the time rotating with a 3D-like graphics and the information displayed is automatically updated. The type of information displayed is: a) Title adapted for lay persons. b) Brief summary adapted for lay persons. c) Name of principal investigator and work place for this investigator. d) Link to a website with more information. e) A QR code with a link to a website with more information. Any research related to Health or Medicine (including Dentistry, Nursing, Physiotherapy) is presented as long as any workplace in the local region is involved. The exposure of this intervention may vary for each person pending on their time in the waiting room. We will not approach them with the survey until at least 10 minutes has passed from they have passed reception and sat down. The TV screens will be turned on stepwise as described below. After turned on they will stay turned on until sufficient number of surveys are collected. It is anticipated that all surveys will be collected during 2017. The study is formally completed after that has been done and it will then be up to each hospital to decide if they want to keep the monitor or remove it.
Sponsors
James Cook University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Other
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
All individuals (patients or their relatives/friends) attending the waiting room in the emergency department at Mackay and Cairns hospitals meeting the inclusion criteria: • Walking in (excludes patients transported to ED in ambulance). • Deemed to be able to sit in the waiting room for their turn (excludes patients with an illness requiring immediate attention). • Being at least 18 years of age. • Deemed to have a reasonable understanding of English. • Deemed to have enough vision to be able to read the survey • Accept participation
Exclusion criteria
None
Outcome results
None listed