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Lecture 1 of 25Week 1: Conceptualizing a research study
Introduction to Health Research
Multifaculty · ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology
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All the lectures
- Introduction to Health Research
- Formulating research question, hypothesis and objectives
- Literature review
- Measurement of disease frequency
- Descriptive study designs
- Analytical study designs
- Experimental study designs: Clinical trials
- Validity of epidemiological studies
- Qualitative research methods: An overview
- Measurement of study variables
- Sampling methods
- Calculating sample size and power
- Selection of study population
- Study plan and project management
- Designing data collection tools
- Principles of data collection
- Data management
- Overview of data analysis
- Ethical framework for health research
- Conducting clinical trials
- Preparing a concept paper for research projects
- Elements of a protocol for research studies
- Publication Ethics
- Manuscript Writing
- Grant Proposal writing