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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 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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Oxman, Andrew D; Paulsen, Elizabeth J (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background Information about effects of treatments based on unsystematic reviews of research evidence may be misleading. However, finding trustworthy information about the effects of treatments based on ...