Ebm@school – a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students

Format: 2-2 Comparison groups should be similar

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Language/s: 3-5 How certain is the evidence?

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Resource Link: View the Lesson

Target Audience: 2-9 Reviews of fair comparisons should be systematic

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Short Description:

A curriculum based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, which consists of six modules.

Key Concepts addressed:

• Chinese
• Cartoons
• Choices: making informed choices
• Comparisons: are they fair and reliable?
• Deutsche
• Euskara
• Gaeilge
• Greek
• Hrvatski
• italiano
• 1-1 Treatments can harm
• 1-10 Hope may lead to unrealistic expectations
• 1-8 More is not necessarily better
• 1-7 Beware of conflicting interests
• 2-10 Peer-review and publication does not guarantee reliable information
• 1-2 Anecdotes are unreliable evidence

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.

Evaluation details

The results of a formal evaluation of the curriculum is available here:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00038-008-7033-1