Can an educational podcast improve the ability of parents of primary school children to assess claims about the benefits and harms of treatments?

Conditions

Peoples ability to assess claims about the effects of treatments

Semakula D, Nsangi A, Oxman AD, Oxman M, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Rosenbaum S, Morelli A, Glenton C, Lewin S, Nyirazinyoye L, Kaseje M, Chalmers I, Fretheim A, Rose CJ, Sewankambo NK.

2020-02-1426 citations

10.1186/s13063-020-4093-x

Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess claims about treatment effects: a randomised controlled trial.

Semakula D, Nsangi A, Oxman AD, Oxman M, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Rosenbaum S, Morelli A, Glenton C, Lewin S, Kaseje M, Chalmers I, Fretheim A, Kristoffersen DT, Sewankambo NK.

2017-05-2247 citations

10.1016/s0140-6736(17)31225-4

Measuring ability to assess claims about treatment effects: the development of the ‘Claim Evaluation Tools’

Astrid Dahlgren, Daniel Semakula, Allen Nsangi, Andrew D Oxman, Iain Chalmers et al. (7 authors)

BMJ Open2017-05-0158 citations

10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013184

Can an educational podcast improve the ability of parents of primary school children to assess the reliability of claims made about the benefits and harms of treatments: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Semakula D, Nsangi A, Oxman M, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Rosenbaum S, Kaseje M, Nyirazinyoye L, Fretheim A, Chalmers I, Oxman AD, Sewankambo NK.

2017-01-216 citations

10.1186/s13063-016-1745-y

Interventions

IHC Podcast

Public Health service announcements

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Parents of children attending or staying near the schools participating in the trial of the IHC teaching resources Ability to communicate in the language of the podcast (English or Luganda) Consent to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Unable to hear Inaccessible e.g. Not possible to be contacted by telephone and geographically out of reach Unavailable during study period Health researchers Parents who have participated in the development and user-testing of the podcast Parents of children who participated n the development and user-testing of the children¿s resources

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. The difference between the intervention and control groups in the proportion of participants with a passing score ;2. The mean difference in the score (number of correct answers) for all of the questions that assess their ability to apply the nine concepts that are included in the IHC podcast	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. The difference between the intervention and control groups in the proportion of parents with a score indicating mastery of the concepts;2. The difference between the intervention and control groups for each concept and for the questions intended to measure their understanding of the concepts;3. Differences in attitudes and intended behaviours between the two groups;4. Interactions between the IHC podcast and the IHC primary school resources on the above objectives	—

Measure

Time frame

1. The difference between the intervention and control groups in the proportion of parents with a score indicating mastery of the concepts;2. The difference between the intervention and control groups for each concept and for the questions intended to measure their understanding of the concepts;3. Differences in attitudes and intended behaviours between the two groups;4. Interactions between the IHC podcast and the IHC primary school resources on the above objectives

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Countries

Uganda

Contacts

Public ContactDaniel Semakula

semakuladaniel@gmail.com+256776543000

Outcome results

None listed