Assessment of attitude towards mlearning among MBBS students

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: MBBS students and their teachers

• Registration Number: CTRI/2019/05/019177
• Lead Sponsor: Maulana Azad Medical College

Brief Summary

A cross-sectional descriptive study is being planned to assess the attitude of medical students towards mobile learning (m learning), to determine the feasibility and acceptability of Epicollect instead of pen and paper in improving undergraduate medical students’ attitude towards data collection for the family health advisory program. All the students posted for the community medicine posting during their second and third professional year in 2019 will be invited to participate in the study. For evaluation of teacher perception to m-Learning, a minimum of 25 teachers from at-least five departments at MAMC will be included in the study with the sample being selected by computer-based simple random sampling. Student questionnaire for evaluating engagement with m-learning, Student questionnaire for assessing attitudes towards m-learning, Mobile learning with Epicollect questionnaire and Mobile Learning Perception Scale adapted from  Uzunboylu and Ozdamli. The data collected will be entered in Epidata Software version 3.1 and analyzed using statistical software Stata version 14. Our institutional Ethics Committee has approved the project.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Last Update Posted: 2019-05-15
• Study Start: 2019-05-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 250

Inclusion Criteria

1.Second and third-year professional undergraduate student pursuing M.B.B.S course at MAMC 2.Students using Android smartphones.

Exclusion Criteria

Students that did not complete the family health advisory program (FHAP).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Student’s attitude towards field-based data collection for fulfilling requirements of the family health advisory program.	At the end of 1 month of the FHAP posting

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Student attitude towards M-Learning.	2. Teacher perception of M-Learning

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Dept. of Community Medicine, Third Floor, Pathology Block, Maulana Azad Medical College; 🇮🇳 Central, DELHI, India

Dept. of Community Medicine, Third Floor, Pathology Block, Maulana Azad Medical College

🇮🇳Central, DELHI, India

DrYamini M

Principal investigator

8973549194

yaminivaishnavidevi@gmail.com