NCT03002610

Presenting Summary Information From Cochrane Systematic Reviews to Physicians

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 108 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital of Split · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pls	Text format with simple explanation of the survey topic main findings and is intended for lay audience.
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	Scientific abstract	Scientific abstract the text written for the academic population and practitioners, with scientific abbreviations which enables experts to go into more detail about the topic.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-01
• Primary completion: 2017-03-01
• Completion: 2017-03-01
• First posted: 2016-12-26
• Last updated: 2019-06-03
• Results posted: 2019-06-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Croatia