Measuring ability to assess claims about treatment effects: the development of the 'Claim Evaluation Tools'.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To describe the development of the Claim Evaluation Tools, a set of flexible items to measure people's ability to assess claims about treatment effects. SETTING:Methodologists and members of the community (including children) in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Norway, the UK and Australia. PARTICIPANTS:In the iterative development of the items, we used purposeful sampling of people with training in research methodology, such as teachers of evidence-based medicine, as well as patients and members of the public from low-income and high-income countries. Development consisted of 4 processes: (1) determining the scope of the Claim Evaluation Tools and development of items; (2) expert item review and feedback (n=63); (3) cognitive interviews with children and adult end-users (n=109); and (4)

SUBMITTER: Austvoll-Dahlgren A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5777467 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature