Presenting Summary Information From Cochrane Systematic Reviews to Physicians

University Hospital of Split

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Other: Infographics; Other: Pls; Other: Scientific abstract

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03002610

IP-2014-12-7672

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full description

The investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with three different formats of the same systematic review summary (Infographics, PLS, scientific abstract). The content of these three formats is based on the same systematic review, but the ways of data presentation will differ: visual presentation in plain language, plain language only, and text with scientific abbreviations. The interventions will be delivered online in January 2016, with physicians who are currently working at Clinical Hospital Split. The trial will be preformed online, and it 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: 108 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• physicians who are working at Clinical Hospital Split

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

---

108 participants in 3 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

Scientific abstract

Active Comparator group

Description:

Scientific abstract is the text written for the academic population and practitioners. It is also intended for control group.

Treatment:

Other: Scientific abstract