Comparison of Blogshot Formats With Standard Cochrane Plain Language Formats

NCT03542201 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: IP-2014-09-7672
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 238
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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.

Conditions

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• 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 Outcomes (2)

• Reading experience

  3 months

• Health numeracy

  3 months

Study Arms (2)

PLS

EXPERIMENTAL

Plain abstract about the Cochrane systematic review.

Other: PLS

Blogshot

EXPERIMENTAL

Blogshot presentation of the results of Cochrane systematic review.

Other: Blogshot

Interventions

PLS OTHER

Participants will have to read standard textual information about the conducted systematic review (approximately 500 words)

PLS

Blogshot OTHER

Participants will have to read the blogshot information about the results of the Cochrane systematic review (approximately 100 words)

Blogshot

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 99 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

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

You may not qualify if:

• None

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Split, School of Medicine: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Split School of Medicine

Split, 21000, Croatia

Location

Related Publications (2)

• 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.

  PMID: 22635285 BACKGROUND

• Buljan I, Tokalic R, Roguljic M, Zakarija-Grkovic I, Vrdoljak D, Milic P, Puljak L, Marusic A. Comparison of blogshots with plain language summaries of Cochrane systematic reviews: a qualitative study and randomized trial. Trials. 2020 May 25;21(1):426. doi: 10.1186/s13063-020-04360-9.

  PMID: 32450904 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Behavior

Study Officials

• Ivan Buljan, MPsy

  PhD student

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 17, 2018
• First Posted: May 31, 2018
• Study Start: April 1, 2018
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2018
• Study Completion: August 1, 2018
• Last Updated: September 25, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CR (1)