Can an educational podcast improve the ability of parents of primary school children to assess the reliability of claims made about the benefits and harms of treatments: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

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• 作者：Daniel Semakula ; Allen Nsangi ; Matt Oxman ; Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren&#8230
• 关键词：Critical thinking ; Critical appraisal ; Higher order thinking ; Meta ; cognition ; Treatment claims ; Health literacy ; Evidence ; based health care ; EBM teaching resources ; Primary school curriculum ; Science teaching
• 刊名：Trials
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：18
• 期：1
• 全文大小：615KB
• 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine, general; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1745-6215
• 卷排序：18

文摘

BackgroundClaims made about the effects of treatments are very common in the media and in the population more generally. The ability of individuals to understand and assess such claims can affect their decisions and health outcomes. Many people in both low- and high-income countries have inadequate aptitude to assess information about the effects of treatments. As part of the Informed Healthcare Choices project, we have prepared a series of podcast episodes to help improve people’s ability to assess claims made about treatment effects. We will evaluate the effect of the Informed Healthcare Choices podcast on people’s ability to assess claims made about the benefits and harms of treatments. Our study population will be parents of primary school children in schools with limited educational and financial resources in Uganda.