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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 research.

Main outcome measures

OR for the effect of intervention on changing the interest in health-related research compared with a control group while adjusting for gender, age and socioeconomic standard.

Results

The intervention significantly increased the short-term interest in health-related research with an OR of 1.3 (1.1-1.7, p=0.0063). We also noted that being female and being older was correlated to a higher interest in health-related research CONCLUSIONS: This study found that proactive information significantly increased the general populations' interest in health-related research. There are reasonable set up costs involved but the costs for maintaining the system were very low. Hence, it seems reasonable that research-active organisations should give much higher priority to this type of activity.

Trial registration number

ACTRN12617001085369.

SUBMITTER: Gunnarsson R

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Gunnarsson Ronny R Cullen Paul P Heal Clare C Banks Jennifer J

BMJ open 20190801 8

<h4>Objective</h4>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.<h4>Design</h4>Randomised controlled trial using a stepped wedge design.<h4>Setting</h4>The emergency department waiting room a ...[more]

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

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

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