Leader: Dr Owen Williamson

Offered

Alfred Hospital First semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

An overview of measures and issues in clinical research; sampling and inference; selecting items, reducing items and creating aggregate scores; inter-rater and intra-rater reliability; reliability and interval consistency of responses; assessing the validity of measures; responsiveness of measures to significant clinical change; strategies for gathering data; wording of questions and design of response categories; data entry and management and handling of missing data.

Objectives

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. apply measurement principles and methods in the critical assessment;
2. develop measures employed in clinical and epidemiological research.

Assessment

Written/online weekly assessment tasks 50%
Final assignment 50%

Contact hours

2 contact hours per week

Off Campus Attendance Requirements

15 contact hours over 2 days

Prerequisites

MPH1040 and MPH1041 or MPH1030 and MPH1031