Brief Reminders as Intervention for Greater Engagement of Cochrane Translators

NCT ID: NCT03534791

Last Updated: 2019-07-05

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

80 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-05-01

Study Completion Date

2019-06-28

Brief Summary

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The intervention will consist of reminders which will be send to the participants randomly via email, with aim to increase the frequency and amount of translated plain language summaries (PLS).

Detailed Description

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All study participants who accept participation in the study will be initially assigned 3 PLSs, and subsequently they will be assigned more PLSs when they translated the previous ones. Intervention group will receive one customized e-mail reminder two weeks after the PLS assignment if they do not translate it within two weeks. If they still do not translate the PLS, they will receive another customized e-mail reminder after every two weeks until they translate the PLS or until we reach maximum of 4 bi-weekly reminders (at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks and 8 weeks post-assignment) or until participants indicate that they are unable to translate it anymore. Text of the reminder that will be sent to the study participants is available in Supplementary file 1. The reminders will be customized for each PLS, and they will contain a name of the PLS indicated in the message. If the participants do not translate PLS within 2 months from PLS assignment, we will stop sending them reminders and we will consider them as dropouts.

Control group will receive no intervention, i.e. standard procedure. Participants in the control group will receive PLSs for translation, in the frequency they indicated, and they will not receive any reminders. They will be assigned new PLSs once they translate the ones that were previously assigned.

All PLSs will be translated in Memsource, a translation management tool that Cochrane plans to start using since March 2018 for managing translation of summaries. Participants will be followed 6 months from the moment of allocation.

Conditions

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Knowledge Translation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

All study participants who accept participation in the study will be initially assigned 3 PLSs, and subsequently they will be assigned more PLSs when they translated the previous ones. Intervention group will receive one customized e-mail reminder two weeks after the PLS assignment if they do not translate it within two weeks.

Control group will receive no intervention, i.e. standard procedure. Participants in the control group will receive PLSs for translation, in the frequency they indicated, and they will not receive any reminders. They will be assigned new PLSs once they translate the ones that were previously assigned.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Outcome Assessors
Study participants will be blinded to allocation. The author who will communicate with the participants will not be blinded. Other authors and outcome assessors who will analyze data will be blinded to allocation of study participants; anonymized data will be analyzed.

Study Groups

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Reminders

Reminders customized for each PLS, containing a name of the PLS indicated in the message. If the participants do not translate PLS within 2 months from PLS assignment, we will stop sending them reminders and we will consider them as dropouts.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Reminders

Intervention Type OTHER

Personalized email which will aim for reminding of the translator about the PLSs on hold.

Control group

Control group will receive no intervention, i.e. standard procedure. Participants in the control group will receive PLSs for translation, in the frequency they indicated, and they will not receive any reminders. They will be assigned new PLSs once they translate the ones that were previously assigned.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Reminders

Personalized email which will aim for reminding of the translator about the PLSs on hold.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* adults ≥18 years who volunteered to translate Cochrane PLSs within the Croatian translation project.

Exclusion Criteria

* none
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Croatian Science Foundation

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Split, School of Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Dalibora Behmen

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Dalibora Behmen, Professor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Researcher and administrator

Locations

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University of Split School of Medicine

Split, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia

Site Status

Countries

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Croatia

References

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Jakus D, Behmen D, Buljan I, Marusic A, Puljak L. Efficacy of reminders for increasing volunteer engagement in translating Cochrane plain language summaries: a pilot randomised controlled trial. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2021 Apr;26(2):49-50. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111378. Epub 2020 Jul 7.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32636205 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2014- 09-7672

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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