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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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Chesire, Faith; Ochieng, Marlyn; Mugisha, Michael; Ssenyonga, Ronald; Oxman, Matt; Nsangi, Allen; Semakula, Daniel; Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia; Lewin, Simon; Sewankambo, Nelson K.; Kaseje, Margaret; Oxman, Andrew D.; Rosenbaum, Sarah (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Good health decisions depend on one’s ability to think critically about health claims and make informed health choices. Young people can learn these skills through school-based interventions, ...
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Semakula, Daniel; Nsangi, Allen; Oxman, Matt; Rosenbaum, Sarah E; Oxman, Andrew D; Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid; Glenton, Claire; Lewin, Simon; Kaseje, Margaret; Morelli, Angela; Fretheim, Atle; Sewankambo, Nelson K (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background Claims about what we need to do to improve our health are everywhere. Most interventions simply tell people what to do, and do not empower them to critically assess health information. Our ...
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Nsangi, Allen; Semakula, Daniel; Rosenbaum, Sarah E; Oxman, Andrew D; Oxman, Matt; Morelli, Angela; Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid; Kaseje, Margaret; Mugisha, Michael; Uwitonze, Anne-Marie; Glenton, Claire; Lewin, Simon; Fretheim, Atle; Sewankambo, Nelson K (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background People of all ages are flooded with health claims about treatment effects (benefits and harms of treatments). Many of these are not reliable, and many people lack skills to assess their reliability. Primary ...
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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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Chesire, Faith Chelagat; Kaseje, Margaret; Ochieng, Marlyn; Ngatia, Benson; Mugisha, Michael; Ssenyonga, Ronald; Oxman, Matt; Nsangi, Allen; Semakula, Daniel; Rose, Christopher James; Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia; Dahlgren, Astrid; Lewin, Simon Arnold; Sewankambo, Nelson K; Rosenbaum, Sarah Ellen; Oxman, Andrew David (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aim There is an overabundance of claims about the advantages and disadvantages of health interventions. People need to be able to appraise the reliability of these claims. The aim of this two-arm cluster-randomized trial ...
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Mugisha, Michael; Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia; Simbi, Clarisse Marie Claudine; Chesire, Faith Chelagat; Senyonga, Ronald; Oxman, Matt; Nsangi, Allen; Semakula, Daniel; Rose, Christopher James; Moberg, Jenny Olivia Jenkins; Dahlgren, Astrid; Kaseje, Margaret; Lewin, Simon Arnold; Sewankambo, Nelson K.; Rosenbaum, Sarah Ellen; Oxman, Andrew David (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aim The aim of this trial was to evaluate the effects of the Informed Health Choices intervention on the ability of students in Rwandan to think critically and make Informed Health Choices. Methods We conducted a ...
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Chesire, Faith Chelagat; Mugisha, Michael; Ssenyonga, Ronald; Rose, Christopher James; Nsangi, Allen; Kaseje, Margaret; Sewankambo, Nelson K.; Oxman, Matt; Rosenbaum, Sarah Ellen; Moberg, Jenny Olivia Jenkins; Dahlgren, Astrid; Lewin, Simon Arnold; Oxman, Andrew David (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aim The aim of this prospective meta-analysis was to synthesize the results of three cluster-randomized trials of an intervention designed to teach lower-secondary school students (age 14–16) to think critically about ...
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Nsangi, Allen; Semakula, Daniel; Glenton, Claire; Lewin, Simon Arnold; Oxman, Andrew David; Oxman, Matt; Rosenbaum, Sarah Ellen; Dahlgren, Astrid; Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia; Kaseje, Margaret; Rose, Christopher James; Fretheim, Atle; Sewankambo, Nelson K. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)We developed the informed health choices (IHC) primary school resources to teach children how to assess the trustworthiness of claims about the effects of treatments. We evaluated these resources in a randomised trial in ...
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Semakula, Daniel; Nsangi, Allen; Oxman, Andrew David; Glenton, Claire; Lewin, Simon Arnold; Rosenbaum, Sarah Ellen; Oxman, Matt; Kaseje, Margaret; Dahlgren, Astrid; Rose, Christopher James; Fretheim, Atle; Sewankambo, Nelson (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)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.We conducted this process evaluation ...
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Ssenyonga, Ronald; Oxman, Andrew David; Nakyejwe, Esther; Chesire, Faith Chelagat; Mugisha, Michael; Nsangi, Allen; Semakula, Daniel; Oxman, Matt; Rose, Christopher James; Rosenbaum, Sarah Ellen; Moberg, Jenny Olivia Jenkins; Kaseje, Margaret; Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia; Dahlgren, Astrid; Lewin, Simon Arnold; Sewankambo, Nelson K (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract Aim: The aim was to evaluate the effect of the Informed Health Choices (IHC) educational intervention on secondary students’ ability to assess health‐related claims and make informed choices. Methods: In a ...