Interventions for Increasing Volunteer Engagement in Knowledge Translation Activity of Translating Cochrane Plain Language Summaries: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 80
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Number of translated PLSs within the 6 month follow-up
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The intervention will consist of reminders which will be send to the participants randomly via email, with aim to increase the frequency and amount of translated plain language summaries (PLS).
Detailed Description
All study participants who accept participation in the study will be initially assigned 3 PLSs, and subsequently they will be assigned more PLSs when they translated the previous ones. Intervention group will receive one customized e-mail reminder two weeks after the PLS assignment if they do not translate it within two weeks. If they still do not translate the PLS, they will receive another customized e-mail reminder after every two weeks until they translate the PLS or until we reach maximum of 4 bi-weekly reminders (at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks and 8 weeks post-assignment) or until participants indicate that they are unable to translate it anymore. Text of the reminder that will be sent to the study participants is available in Supplementary file 1. The reminders will be customized for each PLS, and they will contain a name of the PLS indicated in the message. If the participants do not translate PLS within 2 months from PLS assignment, we will stop sending them reminders and we will consider them as dropouts.
Control group will receive no intervention, i.e. standard procedure. Participants in the control group will receive PLSs for translation, in the frequency they indicated, and they will not receive any reminders. They will be assigned new PLSs once they translate the ones that were previously assigned.
All PLSs will be translated in Memsource, a translation management tool that Cochrane plans to start using since March 2018 for managing translation of summaries. Participants will be followed 6 months from the moment of allocation.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
Masking Description
Study participants will be blinded to allocation. The author who will communicate with the participants will not be blinded. Other authors and outcome assessors who will analyze data will be blinded to allocation of study participants; anonymized data will be analyzed.
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •adults ≥18 years who volunteered to translate Cochrane PLSs within the Croatian translation project.
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Arms & Interventions
Reminders
Reminders customized for each PLS, containing a name of the PLS indicated in the message. If the participants do not translate PLS within 2 months from PLS assignment, we will stop sending them reminders and we will consider them as dropouts.
Intervention: Reminders (Other)
Control group
Control group will receive no intervention, i.e. standard procedure. Participants in the control group will receive PLSs for translation, in the frequency they indicated, and they will not receive any reminders. They will be assigned new PLSs once they translate the ones that were previously assigned.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Number of translated PLSs within the 6 month follow-up
Time Frame: 6 months
The number of translated PLSs will be scored in the six months period for a participant
Secondary Outcomes
- Number of translated PLSs after 3 months of follow up(3 months)
- Time to submitting translation(6 months)
- Loss of participants(6 months)
- Satisfaction with participation in the translation project(6 months)
Investigators
Dalibora Behmen
Professor
University of Split, School of Medicine