Accessibility of the World Health Organization's eTB Catalogue of Recommendations

McMaster University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tuberculosis

Treatments: Other: eTB Catalogue of Recommendations (eTB); Other: World Health Organization Tuberculosis Website (WHO TB)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04745897

7908

Details and patient eligibility

About

The World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Programme (WHO-GTB) issues evidence-informed guideline recommendations on tuberculosis (TB). These recommendations are used by decision-makers, guideline developers and other stakeholders. In an effort to improve the accessibility and usability of these recommendations, a new eTB catalogue of recommendations has been developed. This study aims to compare the accessibility of the new eTB catalogue to the earlier method of accessing recommendations directed through the general WHO website.

Full description

This is a two-arm superiority randomized controlled trial. The primary objective is to compare the accessibility of information between the eTB catalogue (intervention) and WHO TB (comparison). Secondary outcomes include understanding of the information, satisfaction of catalogue presentation, and preference toward the catalogue. Current and potential users of TB recommendations will be recruited. Data will be collected using a survey with demographic questions and subsequent 1:1 randomization to the intervention. Superiority will be declared if the mean difference in accessibility is 0.5 or greater for the intervention arm on the seven-point Likert scale.

Enrollment: 244 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Stakeholders who consider themselves to be users or potential users of tuberculosis (TB) recommendations will be eligible for participation. For the purposes of this trial, a user is defined as someone who has previously accessed TB guidelines, recommendations or policy advice, and a potential user is someone who plans to access TB guidelines, recommendations, or policy advice in the future.
• Participants may be part of any group that has a stake in TB, including the public, healthcare providers, policymakers, or researchers. Participants may be from either low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) or high-income countries (HIC).
• They may also vary in levels of education and previous TB work experience.

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals involved in eTB catalogue development.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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244 participants in 2 patient groups

eTB Catalogue of Recommendation (eTB)

Experimental group

Description:

New eTB catalogue of recommendations website (eTB).

Treatment:

Other: eTB Catalogue of Recommendations (eTB)

World Health Organization Tuberculosis Website (WHO TB)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Current method of accessing tuberculosis (TB) recommendations using World Health Organization (WHO) website (WHO TB).

Treatment:

Other: World Health Organization Tuberculosis Website (WHO TB)