Evaluation of Educational Intervention to Teach Principles of Evidence-based Medicine (EbM) in Biology Classes

Goethe University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Behavioral: Standard educational intervention; Behavioral: Experimental educational intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01567267

EbM@Bio-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of a short term educational intervention for upcoming biology teachers to teach principles of Evidence-based Medicine (EbM) and Good Scientific Practice (GSP) to high-school biology students.

Full description

Shared decision making is increasingly demanded by patients in order to take part in health care decisions. However this demand for autonomy can only be used for shared decision making if the patient has basic skills in critical health literacy. To transfer health care literacy to young and healthy consumers educational intervention programs at high-school might be a feasible and effective way. This preliminary phase 2 study is designed to investigate the effect of an educational intervention to be integrated in a curriculum for upcoming teachers in biology.

Enrollment: 87 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• students becoming biology teachers at participating university during enrollment period

Exclusion criteria

• refusal to participate in study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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87 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental educational intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental educational intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Experimental educational intervention

Standard educational intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard educational intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard educational intervention