Knowledge Mobilization Activities to Support Decision-Making by Youth, Parents and Adults: Study Protocol (eCOVID-PLR)

McMaster University

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Other: Standard Language Version (SLV); Other: Plain Language Recommendation (PLR)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05358990

3856

Details and patient eligibility

About

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) recommendations are usually developed for healthcare professionals (for example Doctors, health organizations, etc.). It is important to make sure that these recommendations can be used and understood by everyone. This study aims to make COVID-19 recommendations more accessible and understandable for parents and caregivers, adults, and youth.

Full description

This is a two-arm superiority randomized controlled trial. The primary objective is to compare the understanding of key guideline information between the Plain Language Recommendation (PLR) (intervention) and the Standard Language Version (SLV- original recommendation as available in the published guideline) (comparison). Secondary outcomes include accessibility and usability of the information, satisfaction with the presentation, intended behavior to follow the information in the recommendation, and preference toward one of the two presentations. Recruitment will be global for the three populations (youth, parents, and adults), using three different online links. Data will be collected using a survey with 1:1 randomization to the intervention and subsequent demographic questions. Superiority will be declared if a minimal difference of 10% in understanding is achieved between the two groups (an average difference of 1 correct answer).

Enrollment: 997 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• For youth population: be between the ages of 15 to 24 years
• For parents population: be 18 years and above and making decisions with or for their children (parent, caregiver, the legal guardian of a child < 18 years)
• For adults: be 21 years of age or older
• Need to be able to complete the survey in English

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals not fitting any of the above age categories or language requirement

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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997 participants in 2 patient groups

Plain Language Recommendation (PLR)

Experimental group

Description:

New easy to read COVID-19 recommendations available on the COVID19 Living Map of Recommendations and Gateway to Contextualization (RecMap).

Treatment:

Other: Plain Language Recommendation (PLR)

Standard Language Version (SLV)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Original recommendation as initially published by the guideline organization.

Treatment:

Other: Standard Language Version (SLV)