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Does pictorial health information improve health behaviours and other outcomes? A systematic review protocol

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Open, August 2018
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Title
Does pictorial health information improve health behaviours and other outcomes? A systematic review protocol
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BMJ Open, August 2018
DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023300
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Danielle Schubbe, Sarah Cohen, Renata W Yen, Maria VD Muijsenbergh, Peter Scalia, Catherine H Saunders, Marie-Anne Durand

Abstract

Most health information is verbal or written, yet words alone may not be the most effective way to communicate health information. Lower health literacy is prevalent in the US and is linked to limited understanding of one's medical condition and treatment. Pictures increase comprehension, recall, adherence and attention in health settings. This is called pictorial superiority. No systematic review has examined the impact of pictorial health information among patients and consumers, including those with lower health literacy. This systematic review and meta-analysis will assess the characteristics and effectiveness of pictorial health information on patient and consumer health behaviours and outcomes, as well as differentially among individuals of lower literacy/lower health literacy. We will conduct a systematic search across selected databases, as well as grey literature, from inception until June 2018. We will include randomised controlled trials in all languages with all types of participants that assess the effect of pictorial health information on patients' and consumers' health behaviours and outcomes. Two independent reviewers will conduct the primary screening of articles and data extraction for the selected articles with a third individual available to resolve conflicts. We will assess the quality of all included studies using the Cochrane risk of bias tool. We will combine all selected studies and do a test of heterogeneity. If there is sufficient homogeneity, we will pool studies into a meta-analysis. Independent of the heterogeneity of included studies, we will also conduct a narrative synthesis. No ethics approval is required. The results will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at relevant conferences. CRD42018084743.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 84 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Researcher 6 7%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 26 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 16 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 13%
Arts and Humanities 5 6%
Psychology 5 6%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Other 12 14%
Unknown 31 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 February 2024.
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#2,654,229
of 25,396,120 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Open
#5,207
of 25,615 outputs
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#52,220
of 341,318 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Open
#127
of 568 outputs
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