None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has led to a large amount of information being made available to the community through a range of mediums. How this information is presented can have a different effect on different people in terms of how much the accept it, and how much it may influence their future behaviours. This research seeks to compare the effectiveness of different approaches that can be used to convey COVID-19 health messages. This will better inform government strategies as to how they might share COVID-19 information as well as information relevant to other future health issues in our community. Using both the 6 vulnerable subgroup populations as well as the community sample group, this study aims to assess: a) the interaction effects between direct information provision versus conversational information provision and how this differs between population groups as well as across the contexts.
Interventions
This trial is a "helix" counterbalanced randomised trial design. Participants are randomly ordered to receive two interventions across two different context areas related to COVID-19 health.
The two arms of the study are:
1. Conversational training approach provided by a General Practitioner ('talking head').
2. Direct information provision provided by a General Practitioner ('talking head').
The two context areas are:
1. Encouraging people to ask workers attending their home if they are vac
This trial is a "helix" counterbalanced randomised trial design. Participants are randomly ordered to receive two interventions across two different context areas related to COVID-19 health. The two arms of the study are: 1. Conversational training approach provided by a General Practitioner ('talking head'). 2. Direct information provision provided by a General Practitioner ('talking head'). The two context areas are: 1. Encouraging people to ask workers attending their home if they are vaccinated or not 2. Encouraging people to avoid sharing food, utensils etc. at gatherings. The arms of study differ by the language and tone. The conversational training approach provides a health message (one of the two context areas mentioned above), in a peer-to-peer fashion that is more about giving advice. The Direct information provision arm, provides a health message that is direct and more one-sided in tone. Each intervention will be delivered as a pre-recorded video. Each video will be of approximately 1-2minutes duration. Each participant will be exposed to both arms of the intervention, with each intervention level being presented in a different context area as per a counterbalanced 'helix' trial approach (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-019-0896-0). It is anticipated that these videos will be observed over an approximate 10minutes period. Participants will observe the videos in their own home or at a partner organisation service provider location relative to their vulnerable population subgroup (e.g. meeting place for our ATSI subgroup). Progression of the participant through both of the intervention/context combinations will be monitored via the online data collection platform (Qualtrics). Qualtrics enables extraction of all responses including partial completions, and allows tracking and recording of in-complete survey entries.
Sponsors
Terry Haines
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
We have 7 specific subgroup populations of interest for this study, below outlines the group and it's associated inclusion criteria. 1. People living with a disability and their carers: Participants must be 18 years of age or older, reside in Australia, be currently living with a disability or is a carer for someone who has a disability. 2. Aged care workers: Participants must be aged 18 years or older, reside in Australia, and be an aged care worker. 3. Refugee and asylum seekers: Participants must be aged 18 years or older, reside in Australia as a refugee or asylum seeker and be able to read/speak English, Dari or Sinhalese. 4. Deaf, hard of hearing people: Participants must be aged 18 years or older, reside in Australia and are deaf or those that are hard of hearing. 5. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: Participants must be aged 18 year or older, reside in Australia and have a heritage of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. 6. Street-based sex workers: Participants must be aged 18 years or older, reside in Australia and be working as a street-based sex worker. 7. General Australian community: Participants must be aged 18 years or older, and reside in Australia.
Exclusion criteria
Across all groups key exclusion criteria include: 1. Anyone who is not currently living in Australia. 2. Anyone who is under the age of 18 years.
Outcome results
None listed