Blended course boosts health tech knowledge in students
NCT ID NCT07690241
First seen Jul 08, 2026 · Last updated Jul 09, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests whether a 14-week blended health informatics course improves knowledge and technology awareness among health science students in Nepal. One group of public health students takes the course, while a control group of pharmacy students follows their usual curriculum. Researchers measure changes in knowledge and awareness of digital health tools before and after the course.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Health Informatics-471 Blended Course
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this course could become a model for teaching health informatics in low-resource settings, improving digital health skills among future healthcare workers.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, single-site study with only 34 students, so results may not apply to other schools or countries. The control group studied a different major, which could bias comparisons.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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34 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Apr 2026
- Finished
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Jun 2026
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Inclusion Criteria: * Active enrollment in the 7th semester of the Bachelor of Public Health (BPH) program (intervention group) or the Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) program (control group) at Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences (MBAHS). * Voluntary written informed consent obtained prior to any study procedure. * Completion of both T1 (Week 1, baseline) and T2 (Week 15, post-intervention) assessments. Exclusion Criteria: * Withdrawal from the study before completion of all study procedures. * Incomplete paired data (missing T1 or T2 assessment).
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences
Hetauda, Bagmati, 31206, Nepal