Effect of promoting current local research activities on large monitors on the population's interest in health-related research: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objectives of this study were threefold: to estimate people's interest in health-related research, to understand to what extent people appreciate being actively informed about current local health-related research and to investigate whether their interest can be influenced by advertising local current health-related research using large TV monitors.

Design

Randomised controlled trial using a stepped wedge design.

Setting

The emergency department waiting room at two public hospitals in northern Queensland, Australia.

Participants

Waiting patients and their accompanying friends and relatives in the emergency department waiting room not requiring immediate medical attention.

Interventions

A TV monitor advertising local current health-related r

SUBMITTER: Gunnarsson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688744 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature