Comparison of Blogshot Formats With Standard Cochrane Plain Language Formats

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Clinical Trial

Official title:

Comparison of Blogshot Formats With Standard Cochrane Plain Language Formats: Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03542201
• Other study ID #: IP-2014-09-7672
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: August 1, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: May 2018
• Source: University of Split, School of Medicine
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 238
• Est. completion date: August 1, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: August 1, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 99 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients visiting their family doctor, students of biomedical studies.

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Intervention

Other:
• PLS
Participants will have to read standard textual information about the conducted systematic review (approximately 500 words)
• Blogshot
Participants will have to read the blogshot information about the results of the Cochrane systematic review (approximately 100 words)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Croatia	University of Split School of Medicine	Split

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Split, School of Medicine

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Croatia, 

References & Publications (1)

Schapira MM, Walker CM, Cappaert KJ, Ganschow PS, Fletcher KE, McGinley EL, Del Pozo S, Schauer C, Tarima S, Jacobs EA. The numeracy understanding in medicine instrument: a measure of health numeracy developed using item response theory. Med Decis Making. 2012 Nov-Dec;32(6):851-65. doi: 10.1177/0272989X12447239. Epub 2012 May 25. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	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.	3 months
Secondary	Reading experience	Likert type scale 1-10 (1 indicating low preference for current presentation type, 10 indicating absolute preference for the current presentation type.	3 months
Secondary	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.	3 months