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Semakula, Daniel; Nsangi, Allen; Oxman, Matthew; Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid; Rosenbaum, Sarah; Kaseje, Margaret; Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia; Fretheim, Atle; Chalmers, Iain; Oxman, Andrew David; Sewankambo, Nelson K. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Claims made about the effects of treatments are very common in the media and in the population more generally. The ability of individuals to understand and assess such claims can affect their decisions and ...
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Semakula, Daniel; Nsangi, Allen; Oxman, Andrew David; Oxman, Matthew Prescott; Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid; Rosenbaum, Sarah; Morelli, Angela; Glenton, Claire; Lewin, Simon; Kaseje, Margaret; Chalmers, Iain; Fretheim, Atle; Kristoffersen, Doris Tove; Sewankambo, Nelson K. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: As part of the Informed Health Choices project, we developed a podcast called The Health Choices Programme to help improve the ability of people to assess claims about the benefits and harms of treatments. We ...
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Semakula, Daniel; Nsangi, Allen; Oxman, Andrew D; Oxman, Matt; Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid; Rosenbaum, Sarah; Morelli, Angela; Glenton, Claire; Lewin, Simon; Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia; Kaseje, Margaret; Chalmers, Iain; Fretheim, Atle; Rose, Christopher J; Sewankambo, Nelson K (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Introduction Earlier, we designed and evaluated an educational mass media intervention for improving people’s ability to think more critically and to assess the trustworthiness of claims (assertions) about ...
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Nsangi, Allen; Semakula, Daniel; Oxman, Andrew D; Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid; Oxman, Matt; Rosenbaum, Sarah; Morelli, Angela; Glenton, Claire; Lewin, Simon; Kaseje, Margaret; Chalmers, Iain; Fretheim, Atle; Ding, Yunpeng; Sewankambo, Nelson K (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Introduction We evaluated an intervention designed to teach 10- to 12-year-old primary school children to assess claims about the effects of treatments (any action intended to maintain or improve health). We report outcomes ...
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Nsangi, Allen; Semakula, Daniel; Oxman, Andrew David; Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid; Oxman, Matthew Prescott; Rosenbaum, Sarah; Morelli, Angela; Glenton, Claire; Lewin, Simon; Kaseje, Margaret; Chalmers, Iain; Fretheim, Atle; Ding, Yunpeng; Sewankambo, Nelson K. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Claims about what improves or harms our health are ubiquitous. People need to be able to assess the reliability of these claims. We aimed to evaluate an intervention designed to teach primary school children ...
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Key Concepts for assessing claims about treatment effects and making well-informed treatment choices Oxman, Andrew David; Chalmers, Iain; Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: The Informed Health Choices (IHC) Key Concepts are standards for judgement, or principles for evaluating the trustworthiness of treatment claims and treatment comparisons (evidence) used to support claims, and ...