Plain Language vs Standard Format for Youth Understanding of COVID-19 Recommendations: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

To ensure that youths can make informed decisions about their health, it is important that health recommendations be presented for understanding by youths.

Objective

To compare understanding, accessibility, usability, satisfaction, intention to implement, and preference of youths provided with a digital plain language recommendation (PLR) format vs the original standard language version (SLV) of a health recommendation.

Design, setting, and participants

This pragmatic, allocation-concealed, blinded, superiority randomized clinical trial included individuals from any country who were 15 to 24 years of age, had internet access, and could read and understand English. The trial was conducted from May 27 to July 6, 2022, and included a qualitative component.

SUBMITTER: Stallwood L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10407760 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature