Section outline

  • Session content

    • Introduction to research
    • Procedural steps in research
    • Epidemiologic studies
    • Bias, confounders and ways to control for them

    Session learning objectives:

    • To provide basic introduction to research methods and techniques
    • Students should understand a general definition of research design
    • To identify the overall process of designing a research study from its inception to its report
    • To describe different types and characteristics of quantitative research methods (epidemiological studies) and know the primary characteristics of quantitative research and qualitative research
    • To identify different types of errors existing in research studies that can jeopardize the findings.

     

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