13152 (v.2) Health Research Methods 681
| Area: | School of Public Health |
| Contact Hours: | 4.0 |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Laboratory: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Introduction to the scientific method, experimental, quasi-experimental, descriptive, qualitative and epidemiological research. Measurement issues - questionnaire development, reliability and validity of data, issues of sampling and sample size. Ethics in research. Biostatistics, descriptive statistics, probability distributions, concepts of hypotheses testing, estimation and confidence intervals, t tests and on-way ANOVA, crosstabulations and chi-square tests, correlation and sample size calculations. Use of SPSS statistical software in order to create, edit and analyse research data. Illustrations of research conducted in a range of health professions. |
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2003 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | Y | Y | | 2003 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | Y | | 2003 | BPI Intern'l Group S'pore | Trimester 1 | Y | | | |
Current as of: August 29, 2003 15:52:10
CRICOS provider code 00301J
