PH 211-Health Research Methology

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Course title: PH 211: Health Research Methodology
Campus: National Campus	Initiator: Paul Dacanay	Date: March 2021
Course description: This course introduces students to research as an essential tool to create new knowledge and to develop proper utilization of existing knowledge in health and health care services. The course covers the basic concepts and principles in the classic quantitative approach, which looks at disease causation and patterns in the communities. It also addresses the qualitative approach, which looks at social aspects and individual behavior as factors determining people’s health and disease status. Instructions on how to construct a mixed methods research design will also be presented. Other important issues related to health research, including literature review, ethical considerations, and writing strategies will be discussed.

COURSE HOURS/CREDITS:

	Hours per Week		No. of Weeks		Total Hours		Semester Credits
Lecture	3	x	16	x	48/16	=	3
Laboratory		x		x	/48	=
Workshop		x		x	/48	=
Co-op		x		x	/32	=
			Total Semester Credits				3

PURPOSE OF COURSE:

[X] Degree requirement

[ ] Degree elective

[ ] Certificate

[ ] Other

PREREQUISITES: PH 111 or Instructor’s permission

PSLOs OF OTHER PROGRAMS THIS COURSE MEETS:

PSLO#	Program

CAC Chair signatures:__________ Date recommended:_________

VPIA signature::___________ Date approved:____________

1. INSTITUTIONAL STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (Check all that apply and are linked to the course student learning outcomes.)

[X]	1. Effective oral communication: capacity to deliver prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
[ ]	2. Effective written communication: development and expression of ideas in writing through work in many genres and styles, utilizing different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images through iterative experiences across the curriculum.
[X]	3. Critical thinking: a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.
[ ]	4. Problem solving: capacity to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.
[ ]	5. Intercultural knowledge and competence: a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.
[ ]	6. Information literacy: the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.
[X]	7. Foundations and skills for life-long learning: purposeful learning activity, undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence.
[X]	8. Quantitative Reasoning: ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations; comprehends and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats.

PROGRAM STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (PSLOs): The student will be able to:

Recognize, describe and discuss the basic public health science facts and principles;
List and discuss the essential public health functions and their interrelationships at community and district level;
Describe and discuss adult, children and family health issues;
Discuss and demonstrate an understanding and practice of some generic public health competencies;
Demonstrate proper public health skills for public health practice in the community as a state or local public health officer;
Discuss and demonstrate community and cultural sensitivity in the health care environment;
Describe and discuss the health determinants and problems of adults, children and families;
Demonstrate proper cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid techniques;
Demonstrate the ability and discuss how to make a community diagnosis based on the determinants of health;
Identify and demonstrate good public health practice;
Have had work experience at a public health facility at community and district levels.

COURSE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (CSLOs) (General): The student will be able to:

Develop a research proposal on a health-related issue
Understand basic principles of and steps in undertaking a quantitative, a qualitative, and a mixed methods research

COURSE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (CSLOs) (Specific): The student will be able to:

CSLO (General) 1: Develop a research proposal on a health-related issue
Student Learning Outcomes (specific)	ISLO	PSLO	Assessment Strategies
1.1 Define and discuss the purpose and goals of Epidemiology and its use	1, 3	2, 4	Individual oral presentation in response to direct questions assessed by a rubric Direct and multiple choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
1.2 List and describe categories of research	1, 3	2, 4	Individual oral presentation in response to direct questions assessed by a rubric Direct and multiple choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
1.3 Explain the purpose of literature reviews	1, 3, 7	2, 4	Individual oral presentation in response to direct questions assessed by a rubric Direct and multiple choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
1.4 Be familiar with the different writing strategies and possible ethical considerations in health research	1, 3, 7	2, 4, 6	Individual oral presentation in response to direct questions assessed by a rubric Direct and multiple choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
1.5 Describe different research proposal formats used in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research	1, 3, 7	2, 4	Individual oral presentation in response to direct questions assessed by a rubric Direct and multiple choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
1.6 Identify ethical issues anticipated in problem statement, purpose statement and research question, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, and writing and disseminating the results of the proposed research undertaking	3, 4, 7	2, 4, 6	Problem solving or Practice sets graded based on an answer key Simulation group work Direct and multiple choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
CSLO (General) 2: Understand basic principles of and steps in undertaking a quantitative, a qualitative, and a mixed methods research
Student Learning Outcomes (specific)	ISLO	PSLO	Assessment Strategies
2.1 Understand the principles and methods used in conducting a quantitative research	3, 7	2, 4	Case Scenario discussions assessed with a rubric Direct and multiple-choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
2.2 Explain the experimental and observational research strategies, their method of work, their advantages and limitations	3, 7	2, 4	Case Scenario discussions assessed with a rubric Direct and multiple-choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
2.3 Understand the principles and methods used in conducting a qualitative research	3, 7	2, 4	Case Scenario discussions assessed with a rubric Direct and multiple-choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
2.4 Describe the characteristics of qualitative research	1, 3	2, 4	Individual oral presentation in response to direct questions assessed by a rubric Direct and multiple choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
2.5 Outline the structure of a report of the research findings	7	2, 4	Practice sets graded based on an answer key Direct and multiple choice questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester
2.6 Understanding the principles and methods used in conducting a mixed methods research .	3	2, 4	Practice sets graded based on an answer key Direct questions as part of examinations and quizzes given during the semester

COURSE CONTENTS

Introduction to research: research and scientific methods
Review of the literature
Writing strategies and ethical considerations
Quantitative methods
Questionnaire design
Review of descriptive statistics: methods for presenting and interpreting health-related data, some statistical concepts
Qualitative methods
Mixed methods procedures

METHODS OF INSTRUCTION

[X] Lecture [X] Cooperative learning groups

[ ] Laboratory [X] In-class exercises

[ ] Audio visual [X] Demonstration

[ ] Other

REQUIRED TEXT(S) AND COURSE MATERIALS:
Creswell JW. (2020). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches (5th Ed.). Thousand-oaks, California: Sage Publication Inc.
(Or most recent edition).

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

The World Health Organization. (2001). Health research methodology (2nd Ed.). Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, WPRO. (Or most recent edition).
Brink H., Walt CVD. (2005). Fundamental of research methodologies for health-care professionals (2nd Ed.). South Africa: Juta Academic.(ISBN-13: 978-0702166808)
Hulley SB., et al. (2007) Designing clinical research (3rd Ed.). New York, NY: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (Or most recent edition).
Triola MF. (2007). Elementary statistics using excel (3rd Ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley. (Or most recent edition).

9.INSTRUCTIONAL COSTS:
None

10. EVALUATION:
Students must have a grade of 70%[C] or better to pass this course.

11. CREDIT BY EXAMINATION
None

PH 211 Health Research Methodology

Approved by VPIA: 04/08/22

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