Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Conditions
Brief summary
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.
Interventions
OTHERPLS
Participants will have to read standard textual information about the conducted systematic review (approximately 500 words)
OTHERBlogshot
Participants will have to read the blogshot information about the results of the Cochrane systematic review (approximately 100 words)
Sponsors
University of Split, School of Medicine
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Patients visiting their family doctor, students of biomedical studies.
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Understanding | 3 months | 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. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Reading experience | 3 months | Likert type scale 1-10 (1 indicating low preference for current presentation type, 10 indicating absolute preference for the current presentation type. |
| Health numeracy | 3 months | 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. |
Countries
Croatia
Outcome results
None listed