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Testing a TheoRY-inspired MEssage ('TRY-ME'): a sub-trial within the Ontario Printed Educational Message (OPEM) trial

Jillian J Francis1*, Jeremy M Grimshaw3,2, Merrick Zwarenstein4,5, Martin P Eccles6, Susan Shiller4, Gaston Godin7, Marie Johnston8, Keith O'Rourke9, Justin Presseau10 and Jacqueline Tetroe11

Author Affiliations

1 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

2 Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

3 Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

4 Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

5 Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Center for Health Services Sciences, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Ontario; Keenan Research Center, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michaels Hospital, Toronto, Ontario

6 Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

7 School of Nursing, University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada

8 Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

9 Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada

10 School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

11 Knowledge Translation Branch, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 160 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Canada

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Implementation Science 2007, 2:39 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-2-39

Published: 26 November 2007

Additional files

Additional File 1:

Validity check materials for TRY-ME (within the OPEM trial). The materials to be distributed to members of the Aberdeen Health Psychology Group to test whether the 'theory-inspired' message is judged to have a greater amount of theoretical content than the standard message.

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