Evaluation of a web portal for improving public access to evidence-based health information and health literacy skills: a pragmatic trial.

Autor: Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren, Arild Bjørndal, Jan Odgaard-Jensen, Sølvi Helseth
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 5, p e37715 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037715
Popis: BACKGROUND: Using the conceptual framework of shared decision-making and evidence-based practice, a web portal was developed to serve as a generic (non disease-specific) tailored intervention to improve the lay public's health literacy skills. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of the web portal compared to no intervention in a real-life setting. METHODS: A pragmatic randomised controlled parallel trial using simple randomisation of 96 parents who had children aged
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