| CTRI Number |
CTRI/2025/02/080107 [Registered on: 07/02/2025] Trial Registered Prospectively |
| Last Modified On: |
31/01/2025 |
| Post Graduate Thesis |
No |
| Type of Trial |
Interventional |
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Type of Study
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Other (Specify) [Retrieval of medical intervention] |
| Study Design |
Single Arm Study |
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Public Title of Study
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Training medical students to enhance their clinically oriented searching skills
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Scientific Title of Study
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Evaluation of a training program for medical students for enhancing their searching skills pertaining to clinical scenarios
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| Trial Acronym |
NIL |
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Secondary IDs if Any
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| Secondary ID |
Identifier |
| NIL |
NIL |
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Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)
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| Name |
Dr Siddharth Sarkar |
| Designation |
Additional Professor |
| Affiliation |
AIIMS, New Delhi |
| Address |
Department of Psychiatry and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), Room No 4096, Teaching Block, AIIMS, New Delhi - 110029
South DELHI 110029 India |
| Phone |
9786022145 |
| Fax |
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| Email |
sidsarkar22@gmail.com |
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Details of Contact Person Scientific Query
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| Name |
Dr Siddharth Sarkar |
| Designation |
Additional Professor |
| Affiliation |
AIIMS, New Delhi |
| Address |
Department of Psychiatry and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), Room No 4096, Teaching Block, AIIMS, New Delhi - 110029
DELHI 110029 India |
| Phone |
9786022145 |
| Fax |
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| Email |
sidsarkar22@gmail.com |
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Details of Contact Person Public Query
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| Name |
Dr Siddharth Sarkar |
| Designation |
Additional Professor |
| Affiliation |
AIIMS, New Delhi |
| Address |
Department of Psychiatry and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), Room No 4096, Teaching Block, AIIMS, New Delhi - 110029
DELHI 110029 India |
| Phone |
9786022145 |
| Fax |
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| Email |
sidsarkar22@gmail.com |
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Source of Monetary or Material Support
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Primary Sponsor
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| Name |
AIIMS, New Delhi |
| Address |
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India - 110029 |
| Type of Sponsor |
Government medical college |
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Details of Secondary Sponsor
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Countries of Recruitment
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India |
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Sites of Study
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| No of Sites = 1 |
| Name of Principal
Investigator |
Name of Site |
Site Address |
Phone/Fax/Email |
| Dr Siddharth Sarkar |
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi |
Department of Psychiatry and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), Room 4096, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi - 110029 South DELHI |
9786022145
sidsarkar22@gmail.com |
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Details of Ethics Committee
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| No of Ethics Committees= 1 |
| Name of Committee |
Approval Status |
| AIIMS, New Delhi |
Approved |
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Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI
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Health Condition / Problems Studied
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| Health Type |
Condition |
| Healthy Human Volunteers |
The participants would be medical students. This is an intervention on teaching. |
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Intervention / Comparator Agent
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| Type |
Name |
Details |
| Comparator Agent |
NOT APPLICABLE |
NOT APPLICABLE |
| Intervention |
Workshop (training) |
Intervention would be only on one day (Total duration of intervention approximately 3 hours).
The workshop would be conducted for half a day and would cover various aspects of making clinically relevant and efficient searches related to scenarios in the clinical setting. The interactive workshop would have 2 interactive lectures and 2 group work. The workshop would be followed by feedback and post-assessment (Day 0 assessment). |
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Inclusion Criteria
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| Age From |
18.00 Year(s) |
| Age To |
35.00 Year(s) |
| Gender |
Both |
| Details |
Medical students (3rd year and above), aged 18 years and above, willing to participate |
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| ExclusionCriteria |
| Details |
Unwilling to participate. |
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Method of Generating Random Sequence
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Not Applicable |
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Method of Concealment
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Not Applicable |
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Blinding/Masking
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Not Applicable |
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Primary Outcome
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| Outcome |
TimePoints |
| Confidence in the ability to provide answers to clinical scenarios (rated on a visual analog scale of 1 to 10) |
This would be assessed at baseline, Day 0 after the intervention, and then at 4 weeks |
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Secondary Outcome
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| Outcome |
TimePoints |
| Acceptability of workshop; Feasibility of conduct & issues encountered. |
Day 0 immediately after the workshop intervention |
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Target Sample Size
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Total Sample Size="30" Sample Size from India="30"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "35"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="35" |
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Phase of Trial
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N/A |
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Date of First Enrollment (India)
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28/02/2025 |
| Date of Study Completion (India) |
07/05/2025 |
| Date of First Enrollment (Global) |
Date Missing |
| Date of Study Completion (Global) |
07/05/2025 |
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Estimated Duration of Trial
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Years="0" Months="2" Days="0" |
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Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)
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Closed to Recruitment of Participants |
| Recruitment Status of Trial (India) |
Completed |
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Publication Details
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N/A |
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Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement
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Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?
Response - NO
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Brief Summary
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With time, medical information has exploded. Information is available through electronic sources. However, it is not possible for an individual to go through all the sources of information. Meanwhile, patients have become ‘tech savvy’ and information is available to them as well on their fingertips. This has necessitated medical professionals of the future to be aware of methods to access the updated clinically relevant information available through the internet, and provide contextually relevant appropriate and accurate information of the patients in clinical practice. Formulating a concise search questions, making efficient searches, interpreting the answers and providing answers in an understandable manner is an important skill for the medical students. As of now, the medical curriculum in India does not have a provision for teaching students for making efficient searches for clinically relevant scenarios, though such a skill is likely to be useful in clinical practice subsequently. Thus, there is a necessity to develop training modules for making more effective searches and test them on available parameters. The present study would be a single group pre-post design wherein medical students would be taught about enhancing clinically oriented searches. Medical students (3rd year and above), aged 18 years and above, willing to participate would be taught in workshop format. The primary outcome measure would be confidence in the ability to provide answers to clinical scenarios (rated on a visual analogue scale of 1 to 10). Acceptability of workshop; Feasibility of conduct and issues encountered would be the secondary outcome measures. |