Kumar A M V, Chinnakali P, Shewade H, Gupta V, Nagpal P, Harries A D
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), South-East Asia Office, New Delhi, India.
Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India.
Public Health Action. 2015 Dec 21;5(4):261-5. doi: 10.5588/pha.15.0034. Epub 2015 Nov 12.
Training courses on data entry are few and far between compared to analysis. To address this gap, we conducted a short 2-day course on quality-assured data capture using EpiData for public health professionals in Bangalore and Puducherry, India, in 2013.
To determine the proportion of participants who used EpiData and taught the software to others during the 2-years after training and explore the reasons for doing/not doing so.
Cross-sectional study with self-administered, semi-structured questionnaire developed using web-based Google Forms. We performed a manual thematic analysis to identify the major reasons for using/not using EpiData.
Of 46 participants, 38 (83%) responded. Of 31 participants involved in research, 17 (55%) had used EpiData, of whom 6 (35%) had performed double entry and validation. Of the 14 who did not use EpiData, 11 had used MS Excel or SPSS/Epi Info for data entry. Of the 38 respondents, 29 (76%) had taught EpiData to other colleagues and students. Reasons for using EpiData included its user-friendliness, its being open access and the ease in preventing data entry errors. Reasons for not performing double entry included lack of time and manpower.
The short course on EpiData was effective in knowledge transfer and provides a scalable model for incorporation into the teaching curricula of medical schools and research institutions.
与数据分析方面的培训课程相比，数据录入培训课程少之又少。为了填补这一空白，2013年我们在印度班加罗尔和本地治里为公共卫生专业人员举办了为期两天的关于使用EpiData进行质量保证数据采集的短期课程。
确定培训后两年内使用EpiData并将该软件传授给他人的参与者比例，并探究这样做或不这样做的原因。
采用基于网络的谷歌表单开发的自填式半结构化问卷进行横断面研究。我们进行了手动主题分析，以确定使用/不使用EpiData的主要原因。
46名参与者中，38人（83%）做出了回应。在参与研究的31名参与者中，17人（55%）使用过EpiData，其中6人（35%）进行了双录入和验证。在14名未使用EpiData的参与者中，11人使用MS Excel或SPSS/Epi Info进行数据录入。在38名受访者中，29人（76%）将EpiData传授给了其他同事和学生。使用EpiData的原因包括其用户友好性、开放获取以及易于防止数据录入错误。不进行双录入的原因包括缺乏时间和人力。
关于EpiData的短期课程在知识传授方面是有效的，并为纳入医学院校和研究机构的教学课程提供了一个可扩展的模式。
