NCT05358990

Knowledge Mobilization Activities to Support Decision-Making by Youth, Parents and Adults: Study Protocol

Knowledge Mobilization Activities to Support Decision-making by Youth, Parents and Adults Using a Systematic and Living Map of Evidence and Recommendations on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 997 (actual)
• Sponsor: McMaster University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) recommendations are usually developed for healthcare professionals (for example Doctors, health organizations, etc.). It is important to make sure that these recommendations can be used and understood by everyone. This study aims to make COVID-19 recommendations more accessible and understandable for parents and caregivers, adults, and youth.

Detailed description

This is a two-arm superiority randomized controlled trial. The primary objective is to compare the understanding of key guideline information between the Plain Language Recommendation (PLR) (intervention) and the Standard Language Version (SLV- original recommendation as available in the published guideline) (comparison). Secondary outcomes include accessibility and usability of the information, satisfaction with the presentation, intended behavior to follow the information in the recommendation, and preference toward one of the two presentations. Recruitment will be global for the three populations (youth, parents, and adults), using three different online links. Data will be collected using a survey with 1:1 randomization to the intervention and subsequent demographic questions. Superiority will be declared if a minimal difference of 10% in understanding is achieved between the two groups (an average difference of 1 correct answer).

Conditions

• COVID-19

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Plain Language Recommendation (PLR)	New easy to read COVID-19 recommendations available on the COVID19 Living Map of Recommendations and Gateway to Contextualization (RecMap).
OTHER	Standard Language Version (SLV)	Original recommendation as initially published by the guideline organization.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-25
• Primary completion: 2022-10-25
• Completion: 2022-10-25
• First posted: 2022-05-03
• Last updated: 2022-12-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada