| CODE | HSC3002 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Research Methods in the Health Sciences | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Health Sciences | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Students receive knowledge on how to critically review relevant literature and to conduct research using various research methodologies. Students are also guided to plan the research project and to formulate a research proposal. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims to guide undergraduate students in health care to conduct a research project in partial fulfilment for the award of the degree, and to submit a relevant manuscript related to the research study. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Comprehensively identify and describe the main stages of the research process. - Formulate research questions/objectives/hypotheses. - Identify the various research methodologies that are able to test a hypothesis/research question and explore a previously identified issue. - Understand the significance of the level of rigour to the validity and reliability of results/and or findings. - Recall and show an understanding of the ethical obligations of research activities involving human subjects and apply the requirements of data protection legislation. - Use statistical tests relevant to the research objectives. - Identify the purpose of qualitative and quantitative analysis as a means of gaining insight into phenomena and generate themes, patterns and categories from data. - Show an awareness of strategies of applying research findings in clinical practice. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Collect primary data from research participants. - Apply acquired knowledge of research ethics. - Use a statistical software package to generate statistical results. - Present a proposal, applying the research process to a specific topic. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Bowling A. (2009) Research methods in health, (3nd edition) Buckingham; Open University Press. - Polgar, S. and Thomas, S.A. (2007) Introduction to Research in the Health Sciences (5th ed.) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. - Robson, C. (2002) Real World Research: A resource for social scientists and practitioners (2nd ed.) Oxford: Blackwell. - David Silverman, Doing Qualitative Research, Sage, 2010. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study & Tutorial | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Rachael Agius Marjorie Bonello Liberato Camilleri Claire Copperstone Cynthia Formosa Stephen Mizzi (Co-ord.) Rita Pace Parascandalo |
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