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NCT Number: NCT03534791

Brief Reminders as Intervention for Greater Engagement of Cochrane Translators

The intervention will consist of reminders which will be send to the participants randomly via email, with aim to increase the frequency and amount of translated plain language summaries (PLS).

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Key information

Conditions

Knowledge Translation

Age range

18 year–65 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Split School of Medicine

Split, Split-Dalmatia County, 21000, Croatia

About this study

All study participants who accept participation in the study will be initially assigned 3 PLSs, and subsequently they will be assigned more PLSs when they translated the previous ones. Intervention group will receive one customized e-mail reminder two weeks after the PLS assignment if they do not translate it within two weeks. If they still do not translate the PLS, they will receive another customized e-mail reminder after every two weeks until they translate the PLS or until we reach maximum of 4 bi-weekly reminders (at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks and 8 weeks post-assignment) or until participants indicate that they are unable to translate it anymore. Text of the reminder that will be sent to the study participants is available in Supplementary file 1. The reminders will be customized for each PLS, and they will contain a name of the PLS indicated in the message. If the participants do not translate PLS within 2 months from PLS assignment, we will stop sending them reminders and we will consider them as dropouts.

Control group will receive no intervention, i.e. standard procedure. Participants in the control group will receive PLSs for translation, in the frequency they indicated, and they will not receive any reminders. They will be assigned new PLSs once they translate the ones that were previously assigned.

All PLSs will be translated in Memsource, a translation management tool that Cochrane plans to start using since March 2018 for managing translation of summaries. Participants will be followed 6 months from the moment of allocation.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • adults ≥18 years who volunteered to translate Cochrane PLSs within the Croatian translation project.

Exclusion criteria

  • none

Treatment and study plan

Reminders

Other

Personalized email which will aim for reminding of the translator about the PLSs on hold.

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of translated PLSs within the 6 month follow-up

    Time frame: 6 months

    The number of translated PLSs will be scored in the six months period for a participant

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of translated PLSs after 3 months of follow up

    Time frame: 3 months

    The number of translated PLSs will be scored in the three months period for a participant

  2. Time to submitting translation

    Time frame: 6 months

    The investigators will note the time needed to submit translation

  3. Satisfaction with participation in the translation project

    Time frame: 6 months

    Likert type scale from 1 to 10 (ranging from 1-completely unsatisfactory to 10-completely satisfactory)

  4. Loss of participants

    Time frame: 6 months

    Loss of participants from the trial at final follow-up of 6 months, defined as participants' message that they wish to stop translating during the trial period, without later messages during the trial that they wish to engage in translation again.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Split, School of Medicine

Other

Collaborators

  • Croatian Science Foundation

Registry information

Official study title

Interventions for Increasing Volunteer Engagement in Knowledge Translation Activity of Translating Cochrane Plain Language Summaries: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
May 23, 2018
Registry last updated
Jul 5, 2019

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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