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dc.contributor.authorSemakula, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorNsangi, Allen
dc.contributor.authorOxman, Matt
dc.contributor.authorAustvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid
dc.contributor.authorSarah Rosenbaum, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorMargaret Kaseje, Margaret
dc.contributor.authorNyirazinyoye, Laeticia
dc.contributor.authorFretheim, Atle
dc.contributor.authorChalmers, Iain
dc.contributor.authorOxman, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorSewankambo, Nelson K.
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-11T09:06:58Z
dc.date.available2022-05-11T09:06:58Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationSemakula, D. et al. (2017). Can an educational podcast improve the ability of parents of primary school children to assess the reliability of claims made about the benefits and harms of treatments : study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 18:31, p. 1-12.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10570/10427
dc.descriptionThis is an open access article accessible via DOI 10.1186/s13063-016-1745-yen_US
dc.description.abstractBackground: Claims made about the effects of treatments are very common in the media and in the population more generally. The ability of individuals to understand and assess such claims can affect their decisions and health outcomes. Many people in both low- and high-income countries have inadequate aptitude to assess information about the effects of treatments. As part of the Informed Healthcare Choices project, we have prepared a series of podcast episodes to help improve people’s ability to assess claims made about treatment effects. We will evaluate the effect of the Informed Healthcare Choices podcast on people’s ability to assess claims made about the benefits and harms of treatments. Our study population will be parents of primary school children in schools with limited educational and financial resources in Uganda. Methods: This will be a two-arm, parallel-group, individual-randomised trial. We will randomly allocate consenting participants who meet the inclusion criteria for the trial to either listen to nine episodes of the Informed Healthcare Choices podcast (intervention) or to listen to nine typical public service announcements about health issues (control). Each podcast includes a story about a treatment claim, a message about one key concept that we believe is important for people to be able to understand to assess treatment claims, an explanation of how that concept applies to the claim, and a second example illustrating the concept. We designed the Claim Evaluation Tools to measure people’s ability to apply key concepts related to assessing claims made about the effects of treatments and making informed health care choices. The Claim Evaluation Tools that we will use include multiple-choice questions addressing each of the nine concepts covered by the podcast. Using the Claim Evaluation Tools, we will measure two primary outcomes: (1) the proportion that ‘pass’, based on an absolute standard and (2) the average score Discussion: As far as we are aware this is the first randomised trial to assess the use of mass media to promote understanding of the key concepts needed to judge claims made about the effects of treatments.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_US
dc.subjectCritical thinkingen_US
dc.subjectCritical appraisalen_US
dc.subjectHigher order thinkingen_US
dc.subjectMeta-cognitionen_US
dc.subjectTreatment claimsen_US
dc.subjectHealth literacyen_US
dc.subjectEvidence-based health careen_US
dc.subjectEBM teaching resourcesen_US
dc.subjectPrimary school curriculumen_US
dc.subjectScience teachingen_US
dc.titleCan an educational podcast improve the ability of parents of primary school children to assess the reliability of claims made about the benefits and harms of treatments : study protocol for a randomised controlled trialen_US
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