NCT05185661

Impact of eHealth Education to Reduce Anemia Among School-going Adolescent Girls in Rural Bangladesh

Completed NA Last updated 28 February 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing eHealth education in Anemia in 138 participants. Completed in 30 January 2024.

Timeline

22 May 2022

Primary endpoint
1 February 2023

30 January 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Hiroshima University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	138
Start date	22 May 2022
Primary completion	1 February 2023
Estimated completion	30 January 2024
Sites	1 location across Bangladesh

Drugs / interventions tested

• eHealth education

Conditions studied

• Anemia — all drugs for Anemia →

Sponsor

Hiroshima University

Who can join

Adults 10 to 19, female only, with Anemia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Adolescent girls are the highly vulnerable group to develop anemia due to reproductive immaturities, poor personal hygiene, lack of nutritional intake, and lack of health education in the rural area of Bangladesh. Rapid advantage of technology, eHealth is the promising tool to overcome the barriers and provide appropriate health guidelines in distant rural communities by developing knowledge, attitude, and practice to reduce anemia and mitigate risk among the school-going adolescent girls. This research aims (1) To evaluate eHealth education's impact on reducing anemia among adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh. (2) To assess the effect of eHealth education to change the knowledge, attitude, and practice among adolescent girls regarding anemia. A Randomized Control Trial study will be conducted from May 22, 2022, to January 21, 2023, in the two schools at the Chandpur district, Bangladesh. During the 8th months' intervention, will be provided eHealth education by the trained community health worker. The participant will be allocated who will be diagnosed as anemic through the blood hemoglobin screening. The sample size was calculated, and the total sample is 138. In this study, one school will be considered an intervention group and another school control group through the simple coin toss randomization technique. Then random sampling technique will be used to select study participants.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Impact of eHealth education to reduce anemia among school-going adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.
   Rahman MJ, Rahman MM, Kakehashi M, Matsuyama R, et al · · 2023 · cited 6× · PMID 38186809 · DOI 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1010_23
2. Impact of mobile health-based nutritional education on hemoglobin levels in anemic adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh: a randomized controlled trial.
   Rahman MJ, Rahman MM, Sarker MHR, Matsuyama R, et al · · 2025 · cited 2× · PMID 40722070 · DOI 10.1186/s12889-025-23687-z