OrthoEvidence Trial Assessing Japanese Knowledge Updates

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy Volunteer
• Interventions: Other: English evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence); Other: Japanese-translated evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence)

• Registration Number: NCT05250622
• Lead Sponsor: McMaster University

Brief Summary

The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to clarify whether providing translated evidence summary (Advanced Clinical Evidence (ACE) reports from OrthoEvidence) will increase the access to the summary compared to providing the original version of evidence summary among Japanese orthopaedic surgeons

Detailed Description

The investigators will conduct the survey regarding baseline characteristics, barriers and familiality to evidence-based medicine by online. After the survey, the participants will be randomly assigned to receive either the original version of ACE reports or Japanese version of ACE reports. The pdf of each ACE report will be provided to the participants through an email link. Twenty reports will be sent over 4 weeks period. After that, the investigators will conduct another survey regarding the reports.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-01-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-02-10
• Study First Posted: 2022-02-22
• Study Start: 2022-04-08
• Status Verified: 2022-07
• Primary Completion: 2022-07-01
• Study Completion: 2022-07-29
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-07-30
• Last Update Posted: 2022-08-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 105

Inclusion Criteria

1. Member of Japanese Society for Fracture Repair (JSFR)
2. Spend at least 20% of their time in clinical practice
3. Non-native speaker of English
4. Has regular access to internet
5. Prefer to read Japanese-translated material, if there are both translated and English version of the same material.

Exclusion Criteria

We will exclude surgeons who cannot provide informed consent.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
English group	English evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence)	Participants who will receive English version of evidence summaries
Japanese group	Japanese-translated evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence)	Participants who will receive Japanese-translated version of evidence summaries

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of access to evidence summaries	Four weeks (28 days) after the commencement of the trial	Total number of access to evidence summaries

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self-rated score of understanding the contents of the provided materials	Within four weeks after the end of intervention	Five-point Likert scale in understanding the contents of provided materials, evaluated by the participants (higher scores means better outcome)
Self-rated score in changing their practice based on the contents of the materials	Within four weeks after the end of intervention	Five-point Likert scale in changing their practice based on the contents of the materials evaluated by the participants (higher scores means better outcome)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

McMaster University; 🇨🇦 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada