Presenting Summary Information From Cochrane Systematic Reviews: Protocol for Research of Infographics Presentation vs. Plain Language Summary

University Hospital of Split

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Other: PLS; Other: Infographics

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02980107

IP-2014-11-7672

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of infographics, compared to standard PLS format, in presenting information, in terms of understanding and remembering research results by consumers.

Full description

The investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with two different formats of the same systematic review summary (Infographics, PLS). The content of these two formats is based on the same systematic review, but the ways of data presentation will differ: visual presentation in plain language and plain language only. The interventions will be delivered online in November 2016, with members of the consumers' groups for pregnancy and parenting - RODA ("Roditelji u akciji", engl."Parents in action"), which gathers different types of consumers: pregnant women, young mothers and parenting and pregnancy advisors; and the members of the Association for Patients' Rights. The trial will be voluntary and anonymous. The survey will consist of 5 parts, in the following order: 1) one format of the summary (randomly assigned), 2) health numeracy, 3) demographic data 4) comprehension test of the information given in the summary, and 5) user friendliness of information and overall satisfaction with the given summary assessed by survey.

Enrollment: 212 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Eligible participants will be members of RODA and Association for Patients' Rights (women) .

Exclusion criteria

• Male members of RODA and Association for Patient's Rights

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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212 participants in 2 patient groups

PLS

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will receive PLS: text format with simple explanation of the survey topic main findings and is intended for lay audience.

Treatment:

Other: PLS

Infographics

Experimental group

Description:

Infographics format of a Cochrane systematic review summary represents the experimental intervention in the trial, where the results are presented with text and pictures.

Treatment:

Other: Infographics