A group of researchers, including two Cochrane founding members, has designed and run a trial which evaluates an intervention designed to teach primary school children to assess claims about the effects of health treatments. The trial included 10,000 children in more than 120 primary schools in the central region of Uganda, and used a combination comic book and textbook to provide information to students. A linked study targeted parents, testing the effectiveness of a podcast series on their ability to assess health claims.
The Lancet has published a series of articles and media resources about the trial and the results. For complete information, please see the following links:
Press release: THE LANCET: Health literacy lessons help children make sense of health claims, study finds
