Course Content

• Introduction to health care research
• Research question, aims & objectives
• Study designs: observational & experimental
• Developing research questionnaire & data collection sheet
• Sample size calculation & Sampling techniques
• Research ethics: History & guidelines
• Consent in human research
• Research proposal writing guideline
• Research proposal scientific writing
• Budgeting research grant, resources & management
• Electronic search - lecture
• Electronic search - Exercise
• Introduction to statistics & SPSS
• Descriptive statistics
• Inferential Statistics
• SPSS Data management, data cleaning & analysis
• Choosing the best statistical test
• Data presentations: tables & graphs
• Manuscript writing
• Publication & authorship

Objectives

• Provide an opportunity to establish or advance the understanding of different research methods and evidence-based knowledge
• Enhance the capability of writing good scientific papers by clarifying the writing process and teach the fundamentals of effective scientific writing of papers.
• Teach the ethical aspects of research on animals and humans.
• Teach the principles and methods in the study of the distribution and determinants of diseases in human populations
• Teach the basic principles of biostatistics and introduce the applied computed biostatistics related to research.
• Teach scientific writing skills

Who should attend ?

• All HealthCare