How to Report Research on the Communication of Health-Related Numbers: The Research on Communicating Numbers (ReCoN) Guidelines.

IF 3.1 3区 医学 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Natalie C Benda, Brian J Zikmund-Fisher, Jessica S Ancker
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BackgroundResearch with lay audiences (e.g., patients, the public) can inform the communication of health-related numerical information. However, a recent systematic review (Making Numbers Meaningful) highlighted several common issues in the literature that impair readers' ability to evaluate and replicate these studies.PurposeTo create a set of guidelines for reporting research regarding the research on communicating numbers to lay audiences for health-related purposes.Reporting RecommendationsWe present 6 common reporting issues from research on communicating numbers that pertain to the background motivating the study, experimental design and analysis reporting, description of the outcomes, and reporting of the data presentation formats. To address these issues, we propose a set of 7 reporting guidelines including 1) specifying how study objectives address a gap in evidence on research on communicating numbers, 2) clearly reporting all combinations of data presentation formats (experimental conditions) compared, 3) providing verbatim examples of the data that were presented to the audience, 4) describing whether or not participants had access to the data presentation formats while outcomes were assessed, 5) reporting the wording of all outcome measures, 6) using standardized terms for both outcomes and data presentation formats, and 7) ensuring that broad outcome concepts such as gist, comprehension, or knowledge are concretely defined.ConclusionsFuture studies involving research on communicating health-related numbers should use these guidelines to improve the quality of reporting and ease of evidence synthesis in future efforts.HighlightsOur systematic review allowed us to exhaustively identify and enumerate several common reporting issues from research on communicating numbers that make it challenging to synthesize evidence.Reporting issues involved not including the background motivating the gap the study addresses, insufficiently describing experimental designs and analyses, and failing to report information regarding the outcomes measured.We propose 7 reporting guidelines for future research on communicating numbers to address the issues detected:1. Specification of how study objectives address a gap in evidence on research communicating numbers2. Clearly reporting all combinations of data presentation format elements compared3. Providing verbatim examples of the data presentation formats4. Describing whether participants had access to the data presentation formats while outcomes were assessed5. Reporting the wording of all outcome measures6. Using standardized terms for both outcomes and data presentation formats7. Ensuring that broad outcome concepts such as gist, comprehension, or knowledge are concretely definedImplementation of these guidelines will facilitate knowledge synthesis of research on communicating numbers and support creating evidence-based guidelines of best practices for communicating health-related numbers to lay audiences.

如何报告健康相关数字传播的研究:通信数字研究(ReCoN)指南。
背景针对非专业受众(如患者、公众)的研究可以为健康相关数字信息的交流提供信息。然而,最近的一项系统综述(使数字有意义)强调了文献中的几个常见问题,这些问题损害了读者评估和复制这些研究的能力。目的为与健康相关目的向外行受众传播数字的研究报告制定一套准则。报告建议我们从研究中提出了6个常见的报告问题,这些问题涉及研究的背景、实验设计和分析报告、结果描述和数据呈现格式的报告。为了解决这些问题,我们提出了一套7个报告准则,包括1)指定研究目标如何解决通信数字研究证据的差距,2)明确报告所有数据呈现格式(实验条件)的比较组合,3)提供呈现给观众的数据的逐字示例,4)描述参与者在评估结果时是否可以访问数据呈现格式。5)报告所有结果测量的措辞,6)对结果和数据表示格式使用标准化术语,以及7)确保对要点、理解或知识等广泛的结果概念进行具体定义。结论:未来涉及健康相关数据交流的研究应使用这些指南,以提高报告质量和证据合成的便利性。我们的系统回顾使我们能够详尽地识别和列举通信数字研究中的几个常见报告问题,这些问题使合成证据具有挑战性。报告问题包括没有包括导致研究解决差距的背景,没有充分描述实验设计和分析,没有报告有关测量结果的信息。为了解决发现的问题,我们为未来的通信数字研究提出了7项报告准则:说明研究目标如何解决研究交流数字证据方面的差距2。清晰地报告数据表示格式元素的所有组合。提供数据表示格式的逐字示例。描述参与者在评估结果时是否能够访问数据呈现格式5。报告所有结果测量的措辞。对结果和数据表示格式使用标准化术语。确保要点、理解或知识等广泛的结果概念得到具体定义。实施这些准则将促进对传播数字研究的知识综合,并支持为向外行受众传播与健康有关的数字制定循证最佳做法指南。
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Medical Decision Making
Medical Decision Making 医学-卫生保健
CiteScore
6.50
自引率
5.60%
发文量
146
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: Medical Decision Making offers rigorous and systematic approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health care policy development. Using the fundamentals of decision analysis and theory, economic evaluation, and evidence based quality assessment, Medical Decision Making presents both theoretical and practical statistical and modeling techniques and methods from a variety of disciplines.
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