COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RESEARCH METHODS AND ADVANCED ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES IN HEALTH SCIENCES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SBE 6069 RESEARCH METHODS AND ADVANCED ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES IN HEALTH SCIENCES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 9

Offered By

The Institute Of Health Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ŞERIFE REYHAN UÇKU

Offered to

Public Health
Pediatric Nursing
Audiology
Psychiatric Nursing
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
Laboratory Animal Science
Occupational Health
Medical Education
Canser Epidemiology Doctorate
Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation PhD Program
Anatomy
Internal Medicine Nursing
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation
Molecular Pathology
Perfusion Techniques
Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology
Basic Oncology
Exercise Physiology
Toxicology
Physical Education and Sport Doctoral
Biochemistry
Biomechanics
Canser Epidemiology
Doctorate Program Rare Diseases
Histology and Embryology
Medical Biology and Genetics
Basic Oncology
Biophysics
Medical Physics
Fundamentals of Nursing
Physiology
Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
Translational Oncology
Oncology Nursing
Medical Parasitology
Microbiology
Pharmacology
Surgical Nursing
Nursing Management
Basic Neuroscience
Molecular Medicine
Translational Oncology
Molecular Medicine
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation
Obstetrics and Gynaecology Nursing

Course Objective

Teach to be able to teach how to plan, apply, conduct and run a health research.

Teach to be able to teach how to select and apply analyses techniques on health research data.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to teach how to teach to plan the health research.
2   Be able to teach how to teach to collect the health research data.
3   Be able to teach how to analyse the health research data.
4   Be able to teach how to write the health research.
5   Be able to teach how to read, understand and criticise the health research.
6   Be able to teach how to teach the health research in all aspects.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Scientific approach and method
2 Causality
3 Principals of research
4 Types of research
5 Population and sampling
6 Binomial, Poisson and normal distributions, standart distribution
7 p value, significance, confidence interval
8 Characteristics of data, data collection
9 Analyses of qualitative data
10 Analyses of quantitive data
11 Multiple analyses
12 Writing the research

Recomended or Required Reading

Portney LG, Watkins MP. Foundations of clinical research. Prentice Hall; 2000.

Kirkwood BR, Sterne JAC. Essential medical statistics. 2nd ed. Blackwell Science; 2003.

Dawson B, Trapp RG. Basic and clinical biostatistics. 4th ed. New York: Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill; 2004.

Aksakoğlu G. Research and analyses in health.3rd ed. Izmir: Meta Publication; 2013. (Turkish)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentations, discussions, questions and answers, weekly homeworks and their corrections until reaching high level.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRF PERFORMANCE
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRF * 0.40 + FIN*0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRF * 0.40 + FCGR*0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Reaching the capability to prepare a research project, collect and analyse its data.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Full attendance.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gazanfer.aksakoglu@deu.edu.tr

902324124001,2

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 3 45
Preparing assignments 15 3 45
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 11 6 66
Preparing presentations 9 5 45
Preparing the laboratory notebook 11 1 11
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 225

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO
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LO.2
LO.3
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LO.5
LO.6

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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