Table 5 Consistent (correct) answers regarding certainty about treatment claimsa
If you heard about a treatment claim, what was it based on? | How sure are you that the treatment claim you heard is true or can be trusted? |
|---|---|
Someone’s personal experience using the treatment | Not very sure, because the reason behind the claim was not good |
What an expert said about it | Not very sure, because the reason behind the claim was not good |
A research study that compared the treatment with another treatment or no treatment | Not very sure, because the reason behind the claim was not good OR Very sure, because the reason behind the claim was good |
Something else | Not very sure, because the reason behind the claim was not good |
I could not tell what the treatment claim was based on | Not very sure, because I don’t know the reason behind the claim |