To tweet or not to tweet about schizophrenia systematic reviews (TweetSz): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Abstract

Introduction: The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group (CSzG) has produced and maintained systematic reviews of effects of interventions for schizophrenia and related illness. Each review has a Plain Language Summary (PLS), for those without specialised knowledge, and an abstract, which are freely available from The Cochrane Library (https://summaries.cochrane.org). Increasingly, evidence is being distributed using social media such as Twitter and Weibo (in China) alongside traditional publications. Methods and analysis: In a prospective two-arm, parallel, open randomised controlled trial with a 1: 1 allocation ratio, we will allocate 170 published systematic reviews into the intervention group (twe..