Content
- Lectures: 30 hours
- Seminar: 15 hours
- Exercises 15 hours
- Independent work: 120 hours
Subject carrier
Description
1. INTRODUCTION
a. What is research
b. Types of research
c. Ethical issues in research
d. Reporting
e. Levels of evidence
2. BASIC CONCEPTS OF MEASUREMENT
a. measuring scales
b. internal / external validity
c. repeatability
d. measurement errors
e. dangers of internal and external validity
3. TYPES AND PLANNING OF RESEARCH
a. Research as a process
b. Quantitative and qualitative approach to research
c. Research strategy
d. Types of research designs
e. Research methods
f. Sampling and representativeness of the sample
g. Literature review
4. STATISTICAL METHODS
a. Basic statistical concepts and data analyzes
b. Analysis of statistical power
c. Regression analysis
d. Factor analysis
e. Internal compliance analysis, Interclass correlation and Bland-Altman test
f. Factorial ANOVA for repeated measurements
g. Two-way ANOVA (factorial and for repeated measurements)
h. ANCOVA
i. MANOVA
5. WRITING AND DESIGNATION OF RESULTS OF RESEARCH WORK