MAPPinfo, mapping quality of health information: study protocol for a validation study of an assessment instrument.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Health information is a prerequisite of informed decision-making. Criteria for development, content and presentation have recently been published in a corresponding guideline. Within a systematic search, 27 relevant checklists were identified, none of them, however, complying with the guideline or providing reasonably operationalised measurement items. Therefore, a draft of a checklist with 19 criteria was drafted. The current study aims at developing and validating this measure of quality.

Methods and analysis

The validation design consists of five single studies to be conducted at the University of Halle-Wittenberg/Germany and Graz/Austria. (1) Achieving content validity through expert reviews of the first draft, (2) achieving feasibility using 'think aloud' i

SUBMITTER: Kasper J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7640523 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature