Course Description:
The course provides fundamental health research skills necessary for students to work in both research and applied settings. It focuses on issues involved in the design, conduct, and evaluation of health research. Each session will deal with skills and issues relevant to a specific stage of the research process. Students will experience and apply their knowledge through the development of a research proposal.
In this course the students will learn :
- The nature, role and context of research in health
- Theoretical issues and approaches to research.
- Developing research questions and hypotheses.
- Sampling technique and data collection techniques
- Data processing and analysis
- Publication, socialization, and dissemination of research findings.
General Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, each student should be able to do the following :
- Critique published health research
- Develop a design for a research or evaluation project
- Understand the data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, and data dissemination processes