Module 6: Crritically and Creatively Consuming Health Information

How can we evaluate health information (2)?

1. health research

2. everyday health information

define validity

extent to which a concept conclusion or measurement in well-founded and likely corresponds accurately to the real world

what is the highest and lowest quality of information found on the evidence pyramid

highest: meta analysis

lowest: background information / expert opinion

what does the CRAAP test (2004) measure (5)?

1. currency

2. relevance

3. accuracy

4. authority

5. purpose

describe the DISCERN test and what is measures (5)?

• brief questionnaire (15 questions, 5-point scale) for assessing the quality of written information on treatment choices for a health problem

• measures reliability, balance, currency, source, quality of information

critical and creative thinking implies being open to __ your beliefs in the face of strong counter-evidence

changing

critical and creative thinking must be __ to our personal and professional lives; we must constantly question how we know things

central