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| Croatian Science Foundation | OTHER_GOV |
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The intervention will consist of reminders which will be send to the participants randomly via email, with aim to increase the frequency and amount of translated plain language summaries (PLS).
All study participants who accept participation in the study will be initially assigned 3 PLSs, and subsequently they will be assigned more PLSs when they translated the previous ones. Intervention group will receive one customized e-mail reminder two weeks after the PLS assignment if they do not translate it within two weeks. If they still do not translate the PLS, they will receive another customized e-mail reminder after every two weeks until they translate the PLS or until we reach maximum of 4 bi-weekly reminders (at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks and 8 weeks post-assignment) or until participants indicate that they are unable to translate it anymore. Text of the reminder that will be sent to the study participants is available in Supplementary file 1. The reminders will be customized for each PLS, and they will contain a name of the PLS indicated in the message. If the participants do not translate PLS within 2 months from PLS assignment, we will stop sending them reminders and we will consider them as dropouts.
Control group will receive no intervention, i.e. standard procedure. Participants in the control group will receive PLSs for translation, in the frequency they indicated, and they will not receive any reminders. They will be assigned new PLSs once they translate the ones that were previously assigned.
All PLSs will be translated in Memsource, a translation management tool that Cochrane plans to start using since March 2018 for managing translation of summaries. Participants will be followed 6 months from the moment of allocation.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Reminders | Experimental | Reminders customized for each PLS, containing a name of the PLS indicated in the message. If the participants do not translate PLS within 2 months from PLS assignment, we will stop sending them reminders and we will consider them as dropouts. |
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| Control group | No Intervention | Control group will receive no intervention, i.e. standard procedure. Participants in the control group will receive PLSs for translation, in the frequency they indicated, and they will not receive any reminders. They will be assigned new PLSs once they translate the ones that were previously assigned. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Reminders | Other | Personalized email which will aim for reminding of the translator about the PLSs on hold. |
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| Number of translated PLSs within the 6 month follow-up | The number of translated PLSs will be scored in the six months period for a participant | 6 months |
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| Number of translated PLSs after 3 months of follow up | The number of translated PLSs will be scored in the three months period for a participant | 3 months |
| Time to submitting translation | The investigators will note the time needed to submit translation |
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Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Dalibora Behmen, Professor | Researcher and administrator | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Split School of Medicine | Split | Split-Dalmatia County | 21000 | Croatia |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 32636205 | Derived | Jakus D, Behmen D, Buljan I, Marusic A, Puljak L. Efficacy of reminders for increasing volunteer engagement in translating Cochrane plain language summaries: a pilot randomised controlled trial. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2021 Apr;26(2):49-50. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111378. Epub 2020 Jul 7. |
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Raw data will be posted to the Figshare repository (https://figshare.com/)
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Within 12 months from study completion. The data will remain in the public repository indefinitely.
Open access, publicly available
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| Release | Nov 2, 2022 | |
| Reset | Sep 12, 2023 |
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| Release Date | Unrelease Date | Unrelease Date Unknown | Reset Date | MCP Release Number |
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| Nov 2, 2022 | Sep 12, 2023 |
All study participants who accept participation in the study will be initially assigned 3 PLSs, and subsequently they will be assigned more PLSs when they translated the previous ones. Intervention group will receive one customized e-mail reminder two weeks after the PLS assignment if they do not translate it within two weeks.
Control group will receive no intervention, i.e. standard procedure. Participants in the control group will receive PLSs for translation, in the frequency they indicated, and they will not receive any reminders. They will be assigned new PLSs once they translate the ones that were previously assigned.
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Study participants will be blinded to allocation. The author who will communicate with the participants will not be blinded. Other authors and outcome assessors who will analyze data will be blinded to allocation of study participants; anonymized data will be analyzed.
| 6 months |
| Satisfaction with participation in the translation project | Likert type scale from 1 to 10 (ranging from 1-completely unsatisfactory to 10-completely satisfactory) | 6 months |
| Loss of participants | Loss of participants from the trial at final follow-up of 6 months, defined as participants' message that they wish to stop translating during the trial period, without later messages during the trial that they wish to engage in translation again. | 6 months |