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How did The Kid's Trial work?

The Kid's Trial was broken up into a bunch of steps. With each new part, kids helped plan and do the randomised trial. Kids could join in one step, more than one, or all of them!

Kids took the
Pre-Trial Quiz

Before joining The Kid's Trial, we asked kids what they already understood about health research and randomised trials.

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Planning the trial!

Here, kids told us how to do the trial, what we should measure, and how to measure what happened.  

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Running the trial!

This is where kids joined the trial they thought up and planned! They were randomised to the 'try-it-out' group or the 'wait-and-see' group!

Follow the arrows to see how The Kid's Trial works.

Next, they watched the videos at the bottom of this page. 

Video 1: What are randomised controlled trials?

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Video 2: What is randomisation?

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Choosing THE question!

Kids got to vote for their favourite question that was sent in. The most popular question was THE QUESTION we tackled in The Kid's Trial!

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Collecting the results!

In this step, kids reported what they found in their trial!

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Sending in your questions!

Kids sent in questions they thought The Kid's Trial should try and answer. We asked kids to try and come up with fun, safe questions that were easy for most kids to do from home. 

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Sorting the questions!

After kids sent in questions they wanted The Kid's Trial to try and answer, they told us which questions they liked best.

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Sharing the results! 

In the last step, kids told us how we should share the results of their trial. We asked them what they thought of the trial and what they learned!

What are randomised trials?

Here, Millie (age 9) introduced us to randomised controlled trials. The Kid's Trial was a randomised controlled trial, but not all trials are. Some don't have a 'Control' or 'Wait-and-See' group.

What is randomisation?

Oran (age 11) explained randomisation in this short video.

Videos
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Find some of the words you heard or read confusing?

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