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Table 5 Characteristics of the participants

From: Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects: one-year follow up of a randomised trial

 

Control group (n = 341)a

Podcast group (n = 334)a

One-year follow-up

Initially after listening to the podcastg

One-year follow-up

Initially after listening to the podcastg

Completed tests

256 (75%)

273 (80%)

267 (80%)

288 (86%)

Education

 Primary

112 (44%)

144 (53%)

123 (46%)

145 (50%)

 Secondary

68 (27%)

68 (25%)

85 (32%)

89 (31%)

 Tertiary

74 (29%)

61 (22%)

58 (22%)

54 (19%)

Training in researchb

130 (51%)

84 (31%)

147 (55%)

96 (33%)

Prior participation in researchc

154 (60%)

74 (27%)

94 (35%)

72 (25%)

Sex

 Female

194 (76%)

208 (76%)

201 (75%)

221 (77%)

 Male

62 (24%)

65 (24%)

66 (25%)

67 (23%)

Age

 Median (25th to 75th percentile)

38 (32 to 45)

37 (30 to 44)

36 (31 to 43)

35 (30 to 42)

  (Range)

(19 to 74)

(18 to 74)

(19 to 79)

(18 to 77)

Sources of healthcared

 Government health facility

177 (69%)

163 (60%)

192 (72%)

177 (61%)

 Private not-for-profit health facility

20 (8%)

25 (9%)

27 (10%)

32 (11%)

 Private for-profit health facility

82 (32%)

107 (39%)

84 (31%)

93 (32%)

 Alternative medicine practitioners

5 (2%)

7 (3%)

9 (3%)

8 (3%)

Advice about treatmentse

 Friends/relatives

25 (10%)

77 (28%)

20 (7%)

46 (16%)

 Health workers

222 (87%)

183 (67%)

248 (93%)

236 (82%)

 Community leaders

6 (2%)

4 (1%)

3 (1%)

6 (2%)

 Radio/TV programmes

24 (9%)

31 (11%)

22 (8%)

19 (7%)

 Alternative medicine practitionersf

4 (2%)

5 (2%)

5 (2%)

8 (3%)

 Internet

3 (1%)

2 (1%)

8 (3%)

3 (1%)

  1. a Randomly allocated
  2. b “Have you ever had any training in scientific research (statistics, epidemiology or randomised trials)?”
  3. c “Have you ever been a participant in a scientific research study?”
  4. d “If you or your family member are unwell, where do you commonly seek medical attention?” (select all that apply)
  5. e “If you need to make a decision on what treatments to use, where do you usually get advice?” (select all that apply)
  6. f For example, herbal medicine practitioners
  7. gResults of the initial evaluation were published elsewhere [43]