Comparison of Blogshot Formats With Standard Cochrane Plain Language Formats: Randomized Controlled Trial
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 238
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Understanding
Study Overview
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.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 99 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients visiting their family doctor, students of biomedical studies.
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Arms & Interventions
PLS
Plain abstract about the Cochrane systematic review.
Intervention: PLS (Other)
Blogshot
Blogshot presentation of the results of Cochrane systematic review.
Intervention: Blogshot (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Understanding
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Reading experience(3 months)
- Health numeracy(3 months)