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

Trials

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Semakula, Daniel ^a,c   Nsangi, Allen ^a,c   Oxman, Matt ^b   Austvoll Dahlgren, Astrid ^b   Rosenbaum, Sarah ^b   Kaseje, Margaret ^d   Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia ^e   Fretheim, Atle ^b,c   Chalmers, Iain ^f   Oxman, Andrew D ^b   Sewankambo, Nelson K ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d GREAT LAKES UNIVERSITY OF KISUMU   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^f James Lind Initiative   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical appraisal; Critical thinking; EBM teaching resources; Evidence based health care; Health literacy; Higher order thinking; Meta cognition; Primary school curriculum; Science teaching; Treatment claims

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL THINKING; CURRICULUM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; METACOGNITION; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGISTER; RELIABILITY; TEACHING; UGANDA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH EDUCATION; INCOME; METHODOLOGY; PARENT; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL; THINKING;

CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INCOME; MASS MEDIA; PARENTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; THINKING; UGANDA;

EID: 85009963241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1745-y     Document Type: Article

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