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Research Use, Methods in Health Communication
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:37
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_223 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences; Library Science | Target Audience: | Information and Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Vita Savicka | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Understanding of healthcare issues. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Deepen understanding and knowledge of research methods in health research, selection criteria for research methods, strengths and weaknesses. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Structure of the social research process, the role of research in health care. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Research design – quantitative and qualitative research. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The researched problem, hypothesis, tasks and structure of research questions, data collection process plan. (Summary of previously learned topics.) The task is to choose a relevant topic in health care, prepare a short report on this topic: identifying the research goal, problem, tasks, hypothesis and a short, concise review of other researches in the world carried out in the new context (findings). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Quantitative research – the design, methods, sampling, questionnaires. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Types of quantitative surveys – observation, analysis of secondary data, internet research. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Principles of quantitative survey questionnaire construction, question formulation, according to the needs of quantitative survey data collection. (Summary of previously learned topics.) The task is to prepare a quantitative survey questionnaire for 1 specific problem in one of the health care areas, identifying the specific target audience of the research and using different types of questions (closed, statement matrices, scale ratings, open). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Qualitative research methods types of qualitative research interviews and group discussion. Basic principles for the implementation of interviews and discussion groups. Development of guidelines. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Data analysis in quantitative and qualitative research. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Data analysis in quantitative and qualitative research. Presentation of student group work – research design, guidelines and survey questionnaires. The task is to prepare individual interview guidelines, no less than 12-15 questions, including questions relevant to the study of motivational, emotional, rational barriers, identifying the target audience, where the opinion of one of the health care problems will be sought. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Development of recommendation research report, report and presentation. The task – the implementation of 3 individual, qualitative interviews, using the previously prepared interview guidelines, recording the main lessons learned in writing. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Presentation of the research piloting results, findings on the necessary additions. The task is to prepare a review of research results, data analysis and specific recommendations for possible solutions to health care problems, after conducting individual interviews. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Presentation of the results of group work, following the previously observed presentation structure. (Research problem, hypothesis, methodology statement, brief overview of the data collection process, main conclusions and findings, recommendations.) The task is a collective, interactive work, presenting your own mini-research and actively participating, commenting and evaluating the work of other colleagues, making recommendations about for the desired improvements in research methodology, impr | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | The course includes theoretical lectures, seminars and independent work to ensure an effective feedback on the acquired material and the necessary additional activities. Tasks: 1) Acquaint students with the role of research in health care. 2) Acquire the structure of the research process and basic principles of planning. 3) Study the most commonly used research methods and data collection methods in health research. Student practical tasks are indicated in the section "Topic Layout". In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The sum of all marks forms the final mark. Knowledge will be assessed on a 10-point scale: Participation in lectures – 10%. Summaries – 20%. Group work, seminars – 10%. Practical work/research – 30%. Examination mark – 30% (examination in a test format). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Understanding of the research process, methodology; understanding of the types of data collection, basic principles of conducting research and the role of research in health care. | ||||||||
| Skills: | The ability to design research, to choose the most appropriate methodology; the ability to design questionnaires, to develop guidelines for interviews and discussion groups, the ability to create a report about the results. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Independently conduct and manage research. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Punch, K.F. Introduction to Social Research. SAGE Publications, London, 2000 | ||||||||
| 2 | Creswell, J. W. Research Design. SAGE Publications. 2009. | ||||||||
| 3 | Robson, C. Real world research.A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Publication, 2013 | ||||||||
| 4 | Sullivan, T. J Methods of Social Research. Harcourt College Publishrs, 2001., pp.255 – 263. | ||||||||
| 5 | Kvale, S. “Interviews. An Introduction to Qualitative Research interviewing”, SAGE Publication, 1996., pp.87 – 89; 94 – 108. | ||||||||
| 6 | Lee, T.W. Using Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research, SAGE Publication., 1998 | ||||||||
| 7 | Bryman A. Social research methods. 2. ed. Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 2011. | ||||||||
| 8 | White K., An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness, Sage Publications Ltd, 2017. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Furlong, N.E., Lovelace E.A., Lovelace, K.L. Research Methods and Statistics: An Integrated Approach. – Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace & Company, 2000. | ||||||||
| 2 | Walliman N. Social research methods. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2007. | ||||||||
| 3 | Kvale S., Brinkmann S. Interviews. Learning the craft of Qualitative research Interviewing. Thousand Oaks; London: Sage Publications. 2009. | ||||||||
| 4 | Kroplijs A., Raščevska M. Kvalitatīvās pētniecības metodes sociālajās zinātnēs. RaKa, 2004. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://petijumi.mk.gov.lv/ | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.vm.gov.lv/lv/ministrija/publikacijas_un_informat… | ||||||||
| 3 | http://www.tns.lv/?lang=lv&category=showproduct&id=social | ||||||||
| 4 | http://www.who.int/en/ | ||||||||
| 5 | http://fgcu.libguides.com/c.php?g=65107&p=419979 | ||||||||
| 6 | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tanja_Manser/publicati… | ||||||||
| 7 | Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Health Research and the Privacy of Health Information: The HIPAA Privacy Rule; Nass SJ, Levit LA, Gostin LO, editors.Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2009. | ||||||||
| 8 | http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-a… | ||||||||
| 9 | http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/sociology/section/me… | ||||||||
| 10 | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/acquisitions/cdm/subjects59.html | ||||||||
