Evaluating educational interventions to support safe use of ChatGPT for health: a randomised-controlled trial of ChatGPT users
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- general health (not specific to a health condition as this is health literacy skills research)Public Health - Health promotion/education
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12624000641594
- Lead Sponsor
- The University of Sydney
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 567
Inclusion Criteria
Adults (18+) years, based in Australia, who self-report having used ChatGPT at least a few times in the past 6 months. A minimum 50% of participants will have less than university level of education
Exclusion Criteria
People who report that they have not used ChatGPT at least a few times in the past 6 months.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Appropriate use of ChatGPT for health questions[performance-based assessment of whether the participant would try using or avoid using ChatGPT to answer a question (7 scenarios). This includes scenarios relating to asking ChatGPT to explain medical terms or concepts, describe treatment options, give treatment advice, interpret personal medical results, summarise other health information, diagnose based on personal symptoms. Scores for each questions will be combined into a composite measure of performance-based ChatGPT skills for health questions. Single timepoint immediately after exposure to the intervention]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Trust in ChatGPT[Likert scale How much do you trust what ChatGPT says? [Extremely to Not at all] Single timepoint immediately after exposure to the intervention];Knowledge of ChatGPT[Participants answer questions about ChatGPT to provide a knowledge score, designed specifically for this study.<br><br><br><br><br> Single timepoint immediately after exposure to the intervention]