HSS 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Blood Sugar, Structured Interview, Random Assignment
4 Oct 2017
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Research is a systematic and principled way of obtaining evidence (data, information) for solving health care problems. Systematic approach: nite number of things that t together eventually to present some kind of picture, organized way about going about this (grow the knowledge base), every step is clearly explained (obvious) and is reproducible. Planning, hypotheses/aims, research design, data collection, organization/ presentation of data, data analysis, interpretation and conclusions, repeat. Principled: carried out according to explicit rules or principles which constitute the scienti c method (relevant evidence such as data and information) A method is a systematic procedure and set of rules which specify: The form in which knowledge should be stated. How the truth or falsity of the knowledge should be evaluated: research planning. Steps: formulate research question, justify the research question, formulate a hypothesis (operational de nition), select research strategy (non-experimental vs. experimental), ethical considerations, and economic considerations. Allows you to make predictions about what might trigger behaviour/action.
