NCT02980107

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 212 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital of Split · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Infographics	Cochrane started developing infographics, where short textual information about research is supported by visual representations of the main findings and is also aimed at the lay public The investigators will examine whether this format is better in information uptake than standard PLS.
OTHER	PLS	Text format with simple explanation of the survey topic main findings and is intended for lay audience.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-11-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2016-12-01
• First posted: 2016-12-02
• Last updated: 2019-06-03
• Results posted: 2019-06-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Croatia