An Evaluation of the Workshop Training Programme of the Nepal Health Research Council

Abstract

Background: Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) is one of the biggest autonomous institutions established for the promotion of health researches by various ways. It organizes the training-workshops for Health System Research methodology to different persons willing to and has been involved in the research field. It also has the strong component of Essential National Health Research to promote national health research system. Methods: Questionnaire was use as a tool to collect information. 100 sets of the questionnaires were posted outside Kathmandu valley via express delivery. Some questionnaires were filled by the investigator with participants in the Kathmandu valley while some were filled up by participants themselves. Results: The participants were satisfied with the training-workshop conducted by the NHRC. They found it more knowledgeable and had used skill oriented procedures, curricula and scientific sessions. They found the workshop as scientific training (48.3%), comprehensive (44.9%) and below expectation and useful (3.4% each). After the training the participants felt independent and competent to do research, write proposal and report with data analysis, incorporation in health field etc. Conclusions: The training-workshop conducted by the NHRC has set a greater priority has positive impact, raised curiosity and interests of different scholars to participate in training-workshops, comprehensive and integrated involvement subjects, has done researches scientifically and on uniform basis. It needs more training-workshops of such type for national development. Keywords: health system research methodology; Nepal health research council; research; training-workshop.