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The Informed Health Choices group.
Informed Health Choices Newsletter 2023.
A summary of the development, evaluation, and adaptation of IHC resources around the world from the last year.
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Key Concepts

 

The Informed Health Choices Key Concepts 2022 (most recent version)
Translations: Spanish (2018 version)

Jeffrey K. Aronson et al. Key Concepts for making informed choices. NATURE, Vol 572,303-306. 2019.
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Ruth Stewart, Jeffrey K. Aronson and Eric Barends et al. Lessons from working across fields to develop a framework for informed choices. Research for All. Vol. 6(1). DOI: 10.14324/RFA.06.1.05
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Müller et al. How to assess claims about cognition and learning: the ACE concepts. Impact, Issue 8, 2020.
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Oxman AD and García LM. Comparison of the Informed Health Choices Key Concepts Framework to other frameworks relevant to teaching and learning how to think critically about health claims and choices: a systematic review [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]F1000Research 2020, 9:164 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.21858.1)
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Oxman AD, Oxman M, Semakula D, Chalmers I, Chelagat F, Kaseje M, Mugisha M, Nsangi A, Ssenyonga R, Se-wankambo N. Prioritisation of Informed Health Choices (IHC) Key Concepts to be included in lower-secondary school resources: a consensus study. Preprint: medRxiv. Acccessed August 09, 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.11.22273708
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Oxman AD, Chalmers I, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Informed Health Choices Group. Key Concepts for assessing claims about treatment effects and making well-informed treatment choices. F1000Res. 2018 Nov 12 [revised 2019 Jan 23];7:1784. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.16771.2.
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Chalmers I, Oxman AD, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Ryan-Vig S, Pannell S, Sewkankambo N, Semakula D, Nsangi A, Barqouni L, Glasziou P, Mahtani K, Nunan D, Heneghan C, Badenoch D. Key Concepts for Informed Health Choices: A framework for helping people learn how to assess treatment claims and make informed choices. BMJ Evid Based Med 2018; 23:29-33.
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Semakula D, Nsangi A, Oxman AD, Sewankambo N. Priority setting for resources to improve information about claims of treatment effects in the mass media. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 2015; 8(2):84-90.
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Nsangi A, Semakula D, Oxman AD, Sewankambo N. Teaching children in low-income countries to assess claims about treatment effects: prioritization of Key Concepts.  Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 2015; 8(4):173-80.
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Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Oxman AD, Chalmers I, Nsangi A, Glenton C, Lewin S, Morelli A, Rosenbaum S, Semakula D, Sewankambo N. Key Concepts that people need to understand to assess claims about treatment effects. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 2015; 8(3):112-25.
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Learning resources

 

Informed Health Choices Group. The Health Choices Book: Learning to think carefully about treatments. A health science book for primary school children. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of Public Health, 2016.
PDF   |  Translations: Spanish | Norwegian
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Informed Health Choices Group. Teachers’ Guide for The Health Choices Book: Learning to think carefully about treatments. A health science book for primary school children. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of Public Health, 2016.
PDF   |  Translations: Spanish
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The Informed Healthcare Choices Group. The Health Choices programme podcast Kampala: Makerere University, 2016.
Podcast (Youtube)  Translation: Luganda

CARL Working Group. Critical thinking and Appraisal Resource Library (CARL). Oxford: James Lind Initiative, 2016.
Website

Castle J, Chalmers I, Atkinson P, Badenoch D, Oxman AD, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Krause K, Schwartz L, Woloshin S, Burls A, Mosconi P, Nordheim L, Hoffmann T, Cusack L, Albarqouni L, Glasziou P. Establishing a library of resources to help people understand Key Concepts in assessing treatment claims – The Critical thinking and Appraisal Resource Library (CARL). PLoS One 2017; Jul 24;12(7):e0178666.
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Evans I, Thornton H, Chalmers I, Glasziou P. Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare. Second Edition. London: Pinter & Martin Ltd, 2011.
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Woloshin S, Schwartz LM, Welch G. Know Your Chances. Understanding Health Statistics. Berkeley (CA): University of California Press, 2008.
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Systematic reviews

 

Oxman M, Larun L, Pérez Gaxiola G et al. Quality of information in news media reports about the effects of health interventions: Systematic review and meta-analyses [version 2; peer review: 3 approved, 1 approved with reservations]F1000Research 2021, 10:433 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.52894.1)
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Oxman AD, Dahlgren A, García LM, Kaseje M, Nsangi A, Rosenbaum S, Semakula D, Sewankambo NK. The effects of teaching strategies on learning to think critically in primary and secondary schools: protocol for an overview of systematic reviews. IHC Working Paper, 2019
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Cusack L, Del Mar CB, Chalmers I, Gibson E, Hoffmann TC. Educational interventions to improve people’s understanding of key concepts in assessing the effects of health interventions: a systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 2018, 7:68. doi: 10.1186/s13643-018-0719-4
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Nordheim L, Gundersen MW, Espehaug B, Guttersrud Ø, Flottorp S. Effects of school-based educational interventions for enhancing adolescents’ abilities in critical appraisal of health claims: a systematic review. PLoS One 2016; 11(8):e0161485.
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Cusack L, Del Mar CB, Chalmers I, Hoffmann TC. Education interventions to improve people’s understanding of key concepts in assessing the effects of health interventions: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews 2016; 5:37.
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Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren, Allen Nsangi, Daniel Semakula. Interventions and assessment tools addressing key concepts people need to know to appraise claims about treatment effects: a systematic mapping review. Systematic Reviews. 2016;5:215. doi:10.1186/s13643-016-0389-z.
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Krause LK, Schwartz L, Woloshin S, Oxman A. Interactive tools to teach the public to be critical consumers of information about health care: What’s out there? Abstracts of the 19th Cochrane Colloquium, Madrid, Spain, 2011, 157.
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Development and evaluation of learning resources

 

Context analyses to inform resource development

Chesire F, Ochieng M, Mugisha M, Ssenyonga R, Oxman M, Nsangi A, Semakula D, Nyirazinyoye L, Lewin S, Sewankambo NK, Kaseje M. Contextualizing critical thinking about health using digital technology in secondary schools in Kenya: a qualitative analysis. Pilot and feasibility studies. 2022 Dec;8(1):1-2.
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Ssenyonga R, Sewankambo NK, Mugagga SK, Nakyejwe E, Chesire F, et al. (2022) Learning to think critically about health using digital technology in Ugandan lower secondary schools: A contextual analysis. PLOS ONE 17(2): e0260367. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260367
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Mugisha M, Uwitonze AM, Chesire F, Senyonga R, Oxman M, et al. (2021) Teaching critical thinking about health using digital technology in lower secondary schools in Rwanda: A qualitative context analysis. PLOS ONE 16(3): e0248773. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248773
Full text | Protocol (generic version)

Development of learning resources

Rosenbaum S, Moberg J et al. Learning to think critically about health: human-centred design of digital resources for secondary school students. 2023. Manuscript in preparation.

Oxman MHabib LJamtvedt G, et al. Using claims in the media to teach essential concepts for evidence-based healthcare.

Rosenbaum S, Oxman M, Oxman AD, Chelagat F, Mugisha M, Ssenyonga R, Nsangi A, Semakula D. Human-centred design development of Informed Health Choices (IHC) learning resources for secondary school students: Protocol. IHC Working paper, Norwegian Institute of Public Health. 2019. ISBN: 978-82-8406-161-0
Protocol

Nsangi A, Semakula, D, Rosenbaum S. et al. Development of the informed health choices resources in four countries to teach primary school children to assess claims about treatment effects: a qualitative study employing a user-centred approach. Pilot Feasibility Stud 6, 18 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00565-6
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Semakula, D., Nsangi, A., Oxman, M. et al. Development of mass media resources to improve the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess the trustworthiness of claims about the effects of treatments: a human-centred design approach. Pilot Feasibility Stud 5, 155 (2019) doi:10.1186/s40814-019-0540-4
Full text  |  Working paperAppendices

Mugisha M. Piloting primary school teaching resources for informed health care choices in an urban school in Kigali, Rwanda: a qualitative study. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, 2016.
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Randomised trials & follow-up studies

Oxman AD, Mugisha M, Chesire F, Ssenyonga R, Rose CJ, Nsangi A, et al. Effects of using the Informed Health Choices secondary school resources: protocol for a prospective meta-analysis. IHC Working Paper. 2022. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6597493

Mugisha, Michael, Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia, Simbi, Clarisse Marie Claudine, Chesire, Faith, Ssenyonga, Ronald, Oxman, Matt, Nsangi, Allen, Semakula, Daniel, Dahlgren, Astrid, Kaseje, Margaret, Lewin, Simon, Sewankambo, Nelson K., Rosenbaum, Sarah, & Oxman, Andrew D. (2022). Effects of using the Informed Health Choices digital secondary school resources on the ability of Rwandan students to think critically about health: protocol for a cluster-randomised trial. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6562788
Trial protocol

Chesire, Faith, Kaseje, Margaret, Ochieng, Marlyn, Mugisha, Michael, Ssenyonga, Ronald, Oxman, Matt, Nsangi, Allen, Semakula, Daniel, Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia, Dahlgren, Astrid, Lewin, Simon, Sewankambo, Nelson K., Rosenbaum, Sarah, & Oxman, Andrew D. (2022). Effects of the Informed Health Choices secondary school intervention on the ability of lower secondary students in Kenya to think critically about health information and choices: Protocol for a cluster-randomized trial. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6562940
Trial protocol

Ssenyonga, Ronald, Oxman, Andrew D., Nakyejwe, Esther, Mugagga, Solomon K., Nsangi, Allen, Semakula, Daniel, Chesire, Faith, Mugisha, Michael, Lewin, Simon, Rosenbaum, Sarah, Oxman, Matt, Kaseje, Margaret, & Sewankambo, Nelson K. (2022). Does the use of the Informed Health Choices teaching resources improve the secondary students’ ability to critically think about health in Uganda? A cluster randomised trial protocol. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6560218
Trial protocol

Semakula, D., Nsangi, A., Oxman, A.D. et al. Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents in Uganda to assess the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects: one-year follow-up of a cluster-randomised trial. Trials 21, 187 (2020) doi:10.1186/s13063-020-4093-x
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Nsangi, A., Semakula, D., Oxman, A.D. et al. Effects of the Informed Health Choices primary school intervention on the ability of children in Uganda to assess the reliability of claims about treatment effects, 1-year follow-up: a cluster-randomised trial. Trials 21, 27 (2020) doi:10.1186/s13063-019-3960-9
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Nsangi A, Semakula D, Oxman AD, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Oxman M, Rosenbaum S, Morelli A, Glenton C, Lewin S, Kaseje M, Chalmers I, Fretheim A, Ding Y, Sewankambo N. Effects of the Informed Health Choices primary school intervention on the ability of children in Uganda to assess the reliability of claims about treatment effects: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2017; doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(17)31226-6
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Semakula D, Nsangi A, Oxman AD, Oxman M, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Rosenbaum S, Morelli A, Glenton C, Lewin S, Kaseje M, Chalmers I, Fretheim A, Kristoffersen DT, Sewankambo N. Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess claims about treatment effects: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2017; doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31225-4
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Process evaluations and stakeholder evaluation

Chesire, Faith, Kaseje, Margaret, Ochieng, Marlyn, Mugisha, Michael, Ssenyonga, Ronald, Oxman, Matt, Nsangi, Allen, Semakula, Daniel, Nyirazinyoye, Laetitia, Dahlgren, Astrid, Sewankambo, Nelson K., Oxman, Andrew D., Rosenbaum, Sarah, & Lewin, Simon. (2022). Effect of the Informed Health Choices digital secondary school resources on the ability of lower secondary students in Kenya to critically appraise health claims: protocol for a process evaluation (Version 5). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6919372
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Mugisha, M, Nyirazinyoye, L, Oxman, AD, Simbi, CMC, Chesire, F, Ssenyonga, R, Oxman, M, Nsangi, A, Semakula, D, Dahlgren, A, Kaseje, M, Sewankambo, NK, Rosenbaum, S, & Lewin, S. (2022). Use of the Informed Health Choices digital resources for teaching lower secondary school students in Rwanda to think critically about health: protocol for a process evaluation (Version 3). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6874985
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Nsangi A, Oxman AD, Oxman M, Rosenbaum SE, Semakula D, et al. (2020) Protocol for assessing stakeholder engagement in the development and evaluation of the Informed Health Choices resources teaching secondary school students to think critically about health claims and choices. PLOS ONE 15(10): e0239985. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239985
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Nsangi A, Semakula D, Glenton C, Lewin S, Oxman AD, Oxman M, Rosenbaum S, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Nyirazinyoye L, Kaseje M, Rose CJ, Fretheim A, Sewankambo NK. Informed health choices intervention to teach primary school children in low-income countries to assess claims about treatment effects: process evaluation. BMJ Open 2019;9:e030787. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030787
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Semakula D, Nsangi A, Oxman A, et al. Informed Health Choices media intervention for improving people’s ability to critically appraise the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects: a mixed-methods process evaluation of a randomised trial in Uganda. Full text | ProtocolAppendices

Other related assessments

Nordheim L, Pettersen, KS, Flottorp S, Hjälmhult E. Critical appraisal of health claims: Science teachers’ perceptions and practices. Health Education 2016; 116(5):449–66.
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Contextualising resources for use in different settings

 

Mugisha M, Uwase M, Manzi E, Ishimwe V, Habineza P, Mugisha E. A Mobile Application for Teaching and Learning Critical Thinking About Health Choices Among Youth in Rwanda: A Digital Tool for Youth Friendly Center Counsellors. In Digital Professionalism in Health and Care: Developing the Workforce, Building the Future 2022 (pp. 29-33). IOS Press.
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Balardin J, Antunes JN (Hospital Albert Einstein). Informed Health Choices primary school resources – Brazilian Portuguese translation process. Final report, Mar 2022. Informed Health Choices Working Paper.
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Glynn D. (2020, August) Contextualising the Informed Health Choices (IHC) programme and resources for delivery in the Irish Primary School System. Research masters thesis. National University of Ireland, Galway
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Ringle VA. (2020, July) Developing and Testing the Effects of an Educational Podcast to Improve Critical Appraisal of Healthcare Claims. Doctoral dissertation, University of Miami.
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Alderighi C. Rasoini R.  Il re nudo nella pandemia: sulla produzione e comunicazione del sapere scientifico ai tempi di SARS-CoV-2. Recenti Prog Med Jul-Aug 2020; 111(7): 398-401. doi: 10.1701/3407.33920.
Editorial in italiano (PDF)

Martínez García L, Alonso-Coello P, Asso Ministral L et al. Learning to make informed health choices: Protocol for a pilot study in schools in Barcelona [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]F1000Research 2020, 8:2018
Protocol |  Protocol en español (PDF)

Ikirezi A. A qualitative study exploring the suitability of Informed Health Choices resources translated into Kinyarwanda for use in primary schools: Case Of Remera Protestant Primary School In Kigali City. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, 2016.
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Semakula D, Nsanji A. Using multiple languages in education: experiences from the Informed Health Choices research project. EAL Journal, February 5 2018.
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Context analyses to inform adaptation

Martínez García L, Samsó Jofra L, Alonso-Coello P et al. Teaching and learning how to make informed health choices: Protocol for a context analysis in Spanish primary schools [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]F1000Research 2021, 10:312 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.51961.1)
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IHC Choice team. Protocol for a context analysis: Exploring the considerations for introducing digital learning resources for critical thinking about health in secondary schools (basis for country-specific protocols). IHC Working Paper. Norwegian Institute of Public Health. 2020
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Lund HM, Mathisen PE, Rekkavik ME, Voll E. Teaching critical thinking about health claims: market analysis for Norwegian primary and lower secondary school. Informed Health Choices Working Paper, 2018.
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Claim evaluation tools

 

Manual

Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Oxman AD, Chalmers I. The Claim Evaluation Tools Working Group. Manual for preparing a test or questionnaire based on the Claim Evaluation Tools database. Version: 09.11.2019.
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Surveys using Claim evaluation tool

Dahlgren A, Furuseth-Olsen K, Rose CJ and Oxman AD. The Norwegian public’s ability to assess treatment claims: results of a cross-sectional study of critical health literacy [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. F1000Research 2020, 9:179
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Oxman AD, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Garratt A, Rosenbaum S. Understanding of key concepts relevant to assessing claims about treatment effects: a survey of Norwegian adults. IHC Working Paper, 2017. ISBN 978-82-8082-819-4
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Claim tool development and validation

Aranza DMilavić BMarusic A, et al. A cross-sectional study on adaptation and initial validation of a test to evaluate health claims among high school students: Croatian version. Full text

Qi Wang, Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren, Yang Yu, Qi Zhou, Nan Yang, Lian Liu, Zijun, Wang, Yaolong Chen. Evaluating people’s ability to assess treatment claims: Validating a test in Mandarin from Claim Evaluation Tools database. Journal of Evidence-based Medicine, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/jebm.12343
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Pérez Gaxiola G, Austvoll-Dahlgren A. Validación de un cuestionario para medir la habilidad de la población general para evaluar afirmaciones acerca de tratamientos médicos. [Psychometric validation of a questionnaire to measure the ability of the public to evaluate claims about treatments]. Gaceta Médica de México, 2018; 154(4).
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Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Guttersrud Ø, Nsangi A, Semakula D, Oxman AD, The IHC group. Measuring ability to assess claims about treatment effects: A latent trait analysis of the Claim Evaluation Tools using Rasch modelling. BMJ Open 2017;0:e013185. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2016-013185.
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Davies A, Gerrity M, Nordheim LV, Opiyo N, Okebukola PO, Sharples J, Wilson H, Wiysonge C, Oxman AD. Measuring ability to assess claims about treatment effects: establishment of a standard for passing and mastery. IHC Working Paper, 2017. ISBN 978-82-8082-802-6.
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Semakula D, Nsangi A, Øystein G, Oxman AD, Sewankambo NK, Austvoll-Dahlgren A. Measuring ability to assess claims about treatment effects in English and Luganda: evaluation of multiple-choice questions from the “Claim Evaluation Tools” database using Rasch modelling. Informed Health Choices Working Paper, 2017. ISBN 978-82-8082-830
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Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Semakula D, Nsangi A, Oxman AD, Chalmers I, Rosenbaum S, Guttersrud Ø, and the IHC Group. Measuring ability to assess claims about treatment effects: the development of the “Claim Evaluation Tools”. BMJ Open 2016;6:e013184. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013184.
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Contextualisation guidance

 

Guides for translating and adapting school resources

The Informed Health Choices group. Guide for translating the Informed Health Choices school resources. Informed Health Choices Working Paper, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, 2019. ISBN (digital): 978-82-8082-994-8
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The Informed Health Choices group. Guide for piloting the Informed Health Choices (IHC) school resources. Informed Health Choices Working Paper, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, 2017. ISBN 978-82-8082-895-8 (updated February 2018)
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The Informed Health Choices group. Resource production guide for translating and adapting Informed Health Choices learning resources. Informed Health Choices Working Paper, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, 2019. ISBN (digital): 978-82-8082-994-8
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Guide for adapting the podcast

The Informed Health Choices group. Guide for translating and adapting the Informed Health Choices (IHC) podcast. Informed Health Choices Working Paper, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, 2017. ISBN 978-82-8082-893-4
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Glossary

 

The GET-IT Working Group. Glossary of Evaluation Terms for Informed Treatment choices (GET-IT). Oxford: James Lind Initiative.
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Moberg J, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Treweek S, Badenoch D, Layfield R, Harbour R, Rosenbaum S, Oxman AD, Atkinson P, Chalmers I. A plain language Glossary of Evaluation Terms for Informed Treatment choices (GET-IT) at www.getitglossary.org. IHC Working Paper, 2017. ISBN 978-82-8082-834-7
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Moberg J, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Treweek S, Badenoch D, Harbour R, Rosenbaum S, Oxman A, Chalmers I. Glossary of Evaluation Terms for informed treatment choices in plain language (GET-IT): Development and evaluation. Poster Abstracts: 9th Conference on Global Health and Vaccination Research, Oslo, Norway, 2015, 30.
Abstract | Poster

 

Academic theses

PhD theses

Semakula, Daniel. (2020, December 2). Improving critical thinking about treatment claims, evidence and choices. Development and evaluation of an intervention to improve the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to critically appraise the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects and make informed health choices. Doctoral dissertation, Faculty of medicine, University of Oslo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4749079
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Nsangi, Allen. (2020, December 11). An educational intervention to enable children to assess claims about the benefits and harms of treatments. Doctoral dissertation, Faculty of medicine, University of Oslo.  doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4765931
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Ringle VA. (2020, July) Developing and Testing the Effects of an Educational Podcast to Improve Critical Appraisal of Healthcare Claims. Doctoral dissertation, University of Miami.
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Masters theses

Glynn D. (2020, August) Contextualising the Informed Health Choices (IHC) programme and resources for delivery in the Irish Primary School System. Research masters thesis. National University of Ireland, Galway
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Ikirezi A. A qualitative study exploring the suitability of Informed Health Choices resources translated into Kinyarwanda for use in primary schools: Case Of Remera Protestant Primary School In Kigali City. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, 2016.
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Mugisha M. Piloting primary school teaching resources for informed health care choices in an urban school in Kigali, Rwanda: a qualitative study. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, 2016.
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Editorials and commentaries

 

Chalmers I. Explaining the unbiased creation of treatment comparison groups. Lancet 2009; 374:1670-1.
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Sharples JM, Oxman AD, Mahtani KR, Chalmers I, Oliver S, Collins K, Austvoll-Dahlgren A, Hoffmann T. Critical thinking in healthcare and education. BMJ 2017; 357:j2234
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Reports

Newsletters include a summary of the development, evaluation and adaptation of IHC resources across more than 20 countries from the last year.

The Informed Health Choices group. Informed Health Choices Newsletter 2021.
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The Informed Health Choices group. Informed Health Choices Newsletter 2020.
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The Informed Health Choices group. Informed Health Choices Newsletter 2019.
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The Informed Healthcare Choices Group. Supporting informed healthcare choices in low-income countries – final report. IHC Update 9 January 2018.
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Other resources for accessible evidence

 

Oxman AD, Glenton C, Flottorp S, et al. Development of a checklist for people communicating evidence-based information about the effects of healthcare interventions: a mixed methods study. BMJ Open 2020;10:e036348. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036348
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Glenton C, Rosenbaum S, Fønhus MS. Checklist and Guidance for disseminating findings from Cochrane intervention reviews. Cochrane, 2019. Available from: https://training.cochrane.org/online-learning/knowledge-translation/how-sharecochrane-evidence/dissemination-essentials-checklist
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Oxman AD, Paulsen EJ. Who can you trust? A review of free online sources of “trustworthy” information about treatment effects for patients and the public. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2019) 19:35 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0772-5
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Glenton C. Developing patient-centred information for back pain patients. Health Expectations 2002; 5(4):319–29.
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Glenton C, Nilsen ES, Carlsen B. Lay perceptions of evidence-based information – a qualitative evaluation of a website for back pain sufferers. BMC Health Services Research 2006; 6:34.
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Glenton C, Santesso N, Rosenbaum S, Nilsen ES, Rader T, Ciapponi A, Dilkes H. Presenting the results of Cochrane Systematic Reviews to a consumer audience: a qualitative study. Medical Decision Making 2010; 30(5):566-77.
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Akl EA, Oxman AD, Herrin J, Vist GE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Costiniuk C, Blank D, Schünemann H. Using alternative statistical formats for presenting risks and risk reductions. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2011; Issue 3, Art. No. CD006776.
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Akl EA, Oxman AD, Herrin J, Vist GE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Costiniuk C, Blank D, Schünemann H. Framing of health information messages. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 12, Art. No. CD006777.
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Rosenbaum SE, Glenton C, Cracknell J. User experiences of evidence-based online resources for health professionals: user testing of The Cochrane Library. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2008; 8:34
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Rosenbaum SE, Glenton C, Nylund HK, Oxman AD. User testing and stakeholder feedback contributed to the development of understandable and useful Summary of Findings tables for Cochrane Reviews. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2010; 63(6):607-19.
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Rosenbaum SE, Glenton C, Oxman AD. Summary of Findings tables improved understanding and rapid retrieval of key information in Cochrane Reviews. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2010; 63(6):620-6.
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Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Akl EA, Kunz R, Vist G, Brozek J, Norris S, YFalck-Ytter Y, Glasziou P, deBeerh H, Jaeschke R, Rind D, Meerpohl J, Dahm P, Schünemann HJ. GRADE guidelines 1. Introduction – GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2011; 64(4):383-94.
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Rosenbaum SE, Glenton C, Wiysonge CS, Abalos E, Mignini L, Young T, Althabe F, Ciapponi A, Garcia Marti S, Meng Q, Wang J, De la Hoz Bradford AM, Kiwanuka S, Rutebemberwa E, Flottorp S, Oxman AD. Evidence summaries tailored for health policymakers in low and middle-income countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011; 89(1):54-61.
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Moberg J, Treweek S, Rada G, Rosenbaum S, Morelli A, Alonso-Coello P, Glenton C, Lewin S, Odgaard-Jensen J, Oxman AD. Does an interactive Summary of Findings table improve users’ understanding of and satisfaction with information about the benefits and harms of treatments? Protocol for a randomized trial. IHC Working Paper; 2016. ISBN 978-82-8082-809-5
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