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Poor health literacy and patient comprehension have been associated with adverse health outcomes. Patient educational materials (PEMs) are articles that are intended to assist patients in their understanding of a given medical condition. Given that the average American adult reads at the 8th grade level, the American Medical Association and the Center for Disease Control recommend PEM be written at the 6th grade level. However, literature has found the majority of PEMs to be written significantly higher than the 8th grade level. In order to improve their readability, a number of studies have displayed the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT to simplify the text of a given PEM. Despite the improvement in readability, the effectiveness of these simplified PEMs on improving patient comprehension of the AI augmented material has yet to be investigated.
The purpose of our study is to test whether the improvement in readability found in AI-simplified PEMs corresponds to a greater understanding of the material compared to the original PEM. Understanding if AI-simplified PEM truly improves comprehension could further support this use case for AI and aid providers and healthcare organizations in improving the health literacy of their patients.
This study aims to answer the following question:
Do AI simplified PEMs improve the comprehension of pediatric orthopaedic conditions?
Researchers will compare AI-simplified PEMs to their original, unmodified counterparts in order to see if there is any difference in post reading comprehension of the participants.
Participation in the study will include:
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Original, unmodified Patient Educational Material | Active Comparator | This group of participants will receive a patient educational material pertaining to osteogenesis imperfecta and written by a physician without simplification by artificial intelligence. |
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| AI-Simplified Patient Educational Material | Experimental | This group will read a patient educational material pertaining to osteogenesis imperfecta that was simplified to the 6th grade reading level by artificial intelligence. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| AI Simplification | Other | A patient educational article will be simplified by artificial intelligence (ChatGPT 5.2) in order to improve its readability. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Post Reading Comprehension Scores | Participants will complete a 10 question multiple choice quiz to measure their comprehension of the assigned reading. Scores can range from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of 10 and an increase in score is associated with a greater degree of comprehension of the material. | Comprehension scores will be recorded once, immediately at the completion of the post-reading comprehension quiz. |
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| Factors Associated with Comprehension Scores | Demographic characteristics such as sex, age, level of educational attainment, health literacy, and insurance status affect comprehension of pediatric orthopaedic educational materials. | These variables will be collected once, pre-intervention (prior to the administration of either original or simplified patient educational material) at the time of survey administration. |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Christopher Williams, MS | Contact | (646)-714-6986 | williamsch@hss.edu |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Hospital for Special Surgery | Recruiting | New York | New York | 10021 | United States |
All IPD collected throughout the trial.
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| Unmodified Patient Educational Material | Other | An unmodified patient educational material, written by a physician and publicly available on the institution's website will be administered to participants of the designated arm of the study. |
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