Interpretation of Health News Items Reporting Results of Pre-clinical Studies With or Without Spin By English-speaking Population
NCT ID: NCT03071614
Last Updated: 2021-02-12
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Basic Information
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WITHDRAWN
NA
INTERVENTIONAL
2019-06-30
2019-12-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Objective: To compare the interpretation of health news items reported with or without spin. News items reporting pre-clinical studies evaluating the effect of a pharmacological treatment that received high online public attention will be focused. "Spin" is defined as a misrepresentation of study results whatever the motive (intentionally or unintentionally) to highlight that the beneficial effect of the intervention in terms of efficacy and safety is greater than that shown by the results.
Hypothesis: The hypothesis of this study is that the spin can influence the reader's interpretation of health news items reporting results of pre-clinical studies.
Design: A randomized controlled trial
1. Interventions: Health news items reporting results of pre-clinical studies with and without spin will be compared. A sample of health news items reporting the results of pre-clinical studies evaluating the effect of pharmacologic treatment and containing spin in the headline and text will be selected. Spin will be deleted in the selected news items and will be rewritten the news without spin.
2. Participants: The participants will include English-speaking population from FindParticipants (https://www.findparticipants.com/).
3. Sample size: For this RCT, the sample size will be 300 participants.
4. Main outcome measures: The primary outcome will be participants' interpretation of the benefit of treatment after reading the news (What do you think is the probability that treatment X would be beneficial to patients? (scale, 0 \[very unlikely\] to 10 \[very likely\]).
5. Expected results: This study will evaluate the impact of spin on the interpretation of news items reporting results of pre-clinical studies by English-speaking population.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
OTHER
SINGLE
Study Groups
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News with Spin
News items reporting results of animal studies with spin.
News items with spin
Interpretation of news items with spin
News without spin
News items reporting results of animal studies without spin.
News items without spin
Interpretation of news items without spin
Interventions
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News items with spin
Interpretation of news items with spin
News items without spin
Interpretation of news items without spin
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Isabelle BOUTRON
Professor
Locations
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Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Paris, Île-de-France Region, France
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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ISB-003
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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