RiskommPt: Risk Literacy Among Portuguese Medical and Dentistry Students
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
This study is an online survey to assess risk literacy among students of the medical and dentistry faculties in Portugal. Risk literacy is the capability to understand and interpret statistical information, based on simple rules of thumb.
The investigators assess the level of "medical risk literacy" among Portuguese medical and dentistry students with the Quick Risk Test (QRT) and the multiple choice version of the Berlin Numeracy Test (BNT).
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Detailed Description
This study is an online survey to assess risk literacy among students of the medical and dentistry faculties in Portugal.
The primary outcome is the measurement of "medical risk literacy" among Portuguese medical and dentistry students as assessed with the Quick Risk Test (QRT) and the multiple choice version of the Berlin Numeracy Test (BNT).
Secondary outcomes is to investigate whether study year, faculty, and prior statistical education have an impact on the level of risk literacy. Participants will be invited via email through established faculty mailing lists or established social media channels. For the survey, an online-survey tool (Unipark, academic program or Questback) will be used. Participation is voluntary and can be withdrawn at any time by aborting the survey (e.g. via closing the browser). Informed consent will be acquired at the beginning of the survey. English and Portuguese versions will be available to the participant.
As incentive to participate, participants completing the brief (ca.15 minutes) online-questionnaire will be granted a free subscriptions to the AMBOSS medical learning platform (2 weeks) and have the option to be entered into a lottery with the possibility of winning one of 3 free 6 month subscriptions.
After completion of the questionnaire, participants will be re-directed to a dedicated AMBOSS website where they can enter their email-address to take part in the lottery. This assures strict separation of the anonymous experimental data and the AMBOSS subscription data. Prior to initiation of the questionnaire, in the invitation email, participants will be provided the full participant information and made aware that, due to anonymity, it will not be possible to retrospectively delete their responses once the survey has been completed.
As the primary outcome is a baseline assessment and the secondary outcomes are exploratory analyses, no hypotheses will be tested in this survey.
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
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| Cross section of the student body. Matriculated students at Portuguese medical and dental faculties. |
Other: No Intervention. Observational study.
No Intervention. Observational study.
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Quantitative measurement of "medical risk literacy" [1st - 30st of May 2020]
Quantitative measurement of "medical risk literacy" among Portuguese medical and dentistry students measured with the Quick Risk Test (QRT) [Jenny, Keller & Gigerenzer, 2018] and the multiple choice version of the Berlin Numeracy Test (BNT) [Cokely & Galesic, 2012].
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Impact of study year, faculty, and prior statistical education on the level of risk literacy [1st - 30st of May 2020]
Secondary outcomes is to investigate, whether study year, faculty, and prior statistical education have an impact on the level of risk literacy.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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medical and dentistry students of Portuguese faculties
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active matriculation at a Portuguese faculty
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completion of the questionnaire
Exclusion Criteria:
- no active matriculation at a Portuguese faculty
Contacts and Locations
Locations
| Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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| 1 | Harding Center for Risk Literacy | Potsdam | Brandenburg | Germany | 14482 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- Harding Center for Risk Literacy
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Niklas Keller, Dr. rer. nat, Harding Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
- Principal Investigator: Alexej Zhogov, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
- Principal Investigator: Maxim Benz, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
- Principal Investigator: Mário Pereira Pinto, Dr., Presidency of the Portuguese Republic, Portugal
- Principal Investigator: Henrique Proença da Cunha, Dr., Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Principal Investigator: Gerd Gigerenzer, Prof., Harding Center for Risk Literacy
- Principal Investigator: Miriam Jenny, Dr., Harding Center for Risk Literacy
Study Documents (Full-Text)
More Information
Additional Information:
Publications
- Caverly TJ, Prochazka AV, Combs BP, Lucas BP, Mueller SR, Kutner JS, Binswanger I, Fagerlin A, McCormick J, Pfister S, Matlock DD. Doctors and numbers: an assessment of the critical risk interpretation test. Med Decis Making. 2015 May;35(4):512-24. doi: 10.1177/0272989X14558423. Epub 2014 Nov 5. Erratum in: Med Decis Making. 2015 May;35(4):410. McCormick, Jacqueline [added]; Pfister, Shirley [added].
- Correction: Assessing minimal medical statistical literacy using the Quick Risk Test: a prospective observational study in Germany. BMJ Open. 2018 Oct 18;8(10):e020847corr2. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020847corr2.
- Corrigendum: doctors and numbers: an assessment of the critical risk interpretation test. Med Decis Making. 2015 May;35(4):410. doi: 10.1177/0272989X15585799.
- Garcia-Retamero R, Cokely ET, Ghazal S, Joeris A. Measuring Graph Literacy without a Test: A Brief Subjective Assessment. Med Decis Making. 2016 Oct;36(7):854-67. doi: 10.1177/0272989X16655334. Epub 2016 Jun 27.
- Garcia-Retamero R, Galesic M, Gigerenzer G. Enhancing understanding and recall of quantitative information about medical risks: a cross-cultural comparison between Germany and Spain. Span J Psychol. 2011 May;14(1):218-26.
- Gigerenzer G, Wegwarth O. Five year survival rates can mislead. BMJ. 2013 Jan 29;346:f548. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f548. Review.
- Jenny MA, Keller N, Gigerenzer G. Assessing minimal medical statistical literacy using the Quick Risk Test: a prospective observational study in Germany. BMJ Open. 2018 Aug 23;8(8):e020847. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020847. Erratum in: BMJ Open. 2018 Oct 18;8(10):e020847corr2.
- Keller N, Feufel MA, Kendel F, Spies CD, Gigerenzer G. Training medical students how to extract, assess and communicate evidence from an article. Med Educ. 2017 Nov;51(11):1162-1163. doi: 10.1111/medu.13444. Epub 2017 Sep 7.
- Lindskog M, Kerimi N, Winman A, Juslin P. A Swedish validation of the Berlin Numeracy Test. Scand J Psychol. 2015 Apr;56(2):132-9. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12189. Epub 2015 Jan 8.
- Wegwarth O, Wagner GG, Gigerenzer G. Can facts trump unconditional trust? Evidence-based information halves the influence of physicians' non-evidence-based cancer screening recommendations. PLoS One. 2017 Aug 23;12(8):e0183024. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183024. eCollection 2017.
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