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Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects: one-year follow up of a randomised trial

open access: yesTrials, 2020
Introduction Earlier, we designed and evaluated an educational mass media intervention for improving people’s ability to think more critically and to assess the trustworthiness of claims (assertions) about the benefits and harms (effects) of treatments ...
Daniel Semakula   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Choices and preferences for Sheikh Abd al-Karim al-Mudarris and Sheikh Muhammad Taha al-Balisani in Surat al-Qasas - a Balanced study - [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإسلامية
     Knowledge of the science of interpretation, and knowledge of the jurists of Islam who are referred to in this chapter - are among the important matters that scholars should take care of, and clarify for people - because God ...
Asma Saleh Hussein -   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of the Informed Health Choices primary school intervention on the ability of children in Uganda to assess the reliability of claims about treatment effects, 1-year follow-up: a cluster-randomised trial

open access: yesTrials, 2020
Introduction We evaluated an intervention designed to teach 10- to 12-year-old primary school children to assess claims about the effects of treatments (any action intended to maintain or improve health).
Allen Nsangi   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Development Choices Model Spreadsheet, 2002

open access: yes, 2020
The spreadsheet contains data that accompanies the Development Choices Model ...
University of Michigan. Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.
core   +6 more sources

Knowledge and practices relating to malaria in a semi-urban area of Cameroon: choices and sources of antimalarials, self-treatment and resistance

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2011
BACKGROUND: Malaria is a major public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa where it kills a child under the age of five every 30 seconds. In Cameroon, malaria accounts for 40-45% of medical consultations, 57% of hospitalization days and 40% of mortality ...
Dickson Shey Nsagha   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Key Concepts for assessing claims about treatment effects and making well-informed treatment choices [version 2; referees: 3 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2019
Background: The Informed Health Choices (IHC) Key Concepts are standards for judgement, or principles for evaluating the trustworthiness of treatment claims and treatment comparisons (evidence) used to support claims, and for making treatment choices ...
Andrew David Oxman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of the informed health choices resources in four countries to teach primary school children to assess claims about treatment effects: a qualitative study employing a user-centred approach

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies, 2020
Background People of all ages are flooded with health claims about treatment effects (benefits and harms of treatments). Many of these are not reliable, and many people lack skills to assess their reliability. Primary school is the ideal time to begin to
Allen Nsangi   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who can you trust? A review of free online sources of “trustworthy” information about treatment effects for patients and the public

open access: yesBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2019
Background Information about effects of treatments based on unsystematic reviews of research evidence may be misleading. However, finding trustworthy information about the effects of treatments based on systematic reviews, which is accessible to patients
Andrew D. Oxman, Elizabeth J. Paulsen
doaj   +1 more source

Development of mass media resources to improve the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess the trustworthiness of claims about the effects of treatments: a human-centred design approach

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies, 2019
Background Claims about what we need to do to improve our health are everywhere. Most interventions simply tell people what to do, and do not empower them to critically assess health information. Our objective was to design mass media resources to enable
Daniel Semakula   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

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