Informed Health Choices media intervention for improving people's ability to critically appraise the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects: a mixed-methods process evaluation of a randomised trial in Uganda.

ABSTRACT: We developed the Informed Health Choices podcast to improve people's ability to assess claims about the effects of treatments. We evaluated the effects of the podcast in a randomised trial.

Objectives

We conducted this process evaluation to assess the fidelity of the intervention, identify factors that affected the implementation and impact of the intervention and could affect scaling up, and identify potential adverse and beneficial effects.

Setting

The study was conducted in central Uganda in rural, periurban and urban settings.

Participants

We collected data on parents who were in the intervention arm of the Informed Health Choices study that evaluated an intervention to improve parents' ability to assess treatment effects.

Procedures

We conducted 84 semistru

SUBMITTER: Semakula D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6937069 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature