Research Methods in Health
Introduction
Scientific research plays a very important role in our efforts to maintain health and combating diseases. Research helps us create new knowledge and develop proper tools for the use of existing knowledge. Not only does it enable health care providers to diagnose and treat diseases, research also provides evidence for policies and decisions on health and development. The objectives of this course is to provide knowledge of research process, research design, sampling methods, statistical methods, and methods for scientific paper writing for students of Master of Public Health and Medical Sciences.Research methods course consists of 3 credits. The course focuses on research process, structure of research paper, literature review, research design, sampling methods, questionnaire design, statistical methods, thesis writing.
А. In vertical axis – This course requires basic knowledge of public health, health service research, and clinical research. B. In horizontal axis – This course is interrealted with the following courses: epidemiology, health management, environmental health, occupational health, health informatics, clinical research, dental health research, and nursing research, and biostatistics.
The goal the research methods is to provide knowledge about research process, research design, statistical methods, and paper writing to conduct research, write research paper, and to conduct literature review.
Course learning objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
Identify research problem and research topic
- Apply research methods to health problems
- Plan for research to solve research problem
- Design research to meet research objectives
- Review literature relevant to research topic
- Design sampling framework relevant to research topic
- Use statistical methods to solve research questions
- Write research paper
- Research problems in health service research and clinical research
- Approaches to scientific research methods in clinical and public health problems
Students will gain following basic skills:
- To identify research problems and research topic
- To apply relevant statistical methods to research problems
To write research paper and thesis Students will have following attitudes:
- To approach health problem in scientific ways to problem solving
The goal the research methods is to provide knowledge about research process, research design, statistical methods, and paper writing to conduct research, write research paper, and to conduct literature review.
Week |
Date |
Course Plan |
Assignment |
Week 1 |
10/15 |
What are principles of research methods? (Ch. 1) |
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Week 2 |
10/22 |
Structure of research paper (Ch. 2) |
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Week 3 |
10/29 |
Literature review (Ch. 3) |
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Week 4 |
11/5 |
Research design (Ch.4) |
Brief proposal |
Week 5 |
11/12 |
Measurement and validity (Ch.5) |
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Week 6 |
11/19 |
Questionnaire design (Ch. 6) |
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Week 7 |
11/26 |
Sampling design (Ch. 7) |
Critique |
Week 8 |
12/3 |
Descriptive statistics (Ch. 8) |
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Week 9 |
12/10 |
Inferential statistics (Ch. 9) |
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Week 10 |
12/17 |
Applications of research methods (Ch.10) |
Extended proposal |
Week 11 |
12/24 |
Thesis writing (Ch. 11) |
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Week 12 |
12/31 |
Final exam |
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Credits |
Lecture |
Course excursive |
Assignment |
3 crd |
24 hours |
48 hours |
72 hours |
Course Objectives |
The purpose of Introduction to research method is to help students to understand basic concepts of research methods and to apply them to health informatics. |
Participation |
Assignment |
Mid-term |
Final |
20 % |
20 % |
30 % |
30 % |
Evaluation Policy |
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Textbook |
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Young M. Chae
PhD