Ebm@school – a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students
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Short Description:
A curriculum based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, which consists of six modules.
Key Concepts addressed:- 1-2 Anecdotes are unreliable evidence
- 1-3 Association is not the same as causation
- 1-4 Common practice is not always evidence-based
- 1-6 Expert opinion is not always right
- 1-8 More is not necessarily better
- 1-12 Dramatic treatment effects are rare
- 2-1 Comparisons are needed to identify treatment effects
- 2-2 Comparison groups should be similar
- 2-3 Peoples' outcomes should be analyzed in their original groups
- 2-4 Comparison groups should be treated equally
- 2-5 People should not know which treatment they get
- 2-6 Peoples' outcomes should be assessed similarly
- 2-8 Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons
- 2-9 Reviews of fair comparisons should be systematic
- 2-13 Relative measures of effects can be misleading
- 2-15 Fair comparisons with few people or outcome events can be misleading
Details
Increasingly, patients and consumers are taking responsibility for their diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. This requires a certain amount of health literacy in order to critically assess the various procedures and products. The aim of this study was to develop and pilot test a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students.