Course: Research Methods

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Course title Research Methods
Course code KE/MVE5
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hrach Karel, RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Lecture Topics: 1. Basic terms: survey and research, basic and applied research, qualitative and quantitative, experiment and investigation. 2. Types of clinical trials and studies, ethical aspects: informed consent. 3. Introduction to statistical investigation: population and selection, identifiers and statistical quantities. 4. Questionnaires: types of quantities, pilot investigation. 5. Elementary data description: the issues of frequencies including multiple responses, modus, contingency table. 6. Quantile and momentary characteristics: median, average, standard deviation, box-plot. 7. Time-series and its characteristics. 8. Demonstration of MS-Office Excel application (modus, median, average, standard deviation, frequencies, contingency table). 9. The research carried out at the Faculty of Health Studies: a visit to the laboratory. 10. Revision.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The subject covers the issues of scientific work from problem specification, choosing the adequate method and making a questionnaire to selected options of statistical description of gained information. The goal of this subject is to provide students with practical instructions about how to proceed the data for the thesis including delivering information about the possibility to take part in the research carried out at the faculty.
Subject Knowledge: After completing the course the students will know the principles of scientific work in all its phases which means from planning through realization to publishing results, they will also know relative ethical standards. Professional Skills: After completing the course the students can gain the data and with the help of elementary statistical methods can process the data by means of a computer.
Prerequisites
Conditional subject was not determined.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Basic requirement is 80%attendance, the next requirement is active work (there will be checking of completing continuously assigned tasks supported by e-learning Moodle environment).
Recommended literature
  • HAVEL, Z. a D. CIHLÁŘ. Vybrané neparametrické statistické postupy v antropomotorice.. Ústí n. L.: UJEP, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7414-402-8.
  • HNÍZDIL,J. Pokyny pro vypracování bakalář. práce zdravotnických oborů UJEP. Ústí nad Labem: ÚZS UJEP, 2006. ISBN 80-7044-759-1..
  • HRACH, Karel. Základy biostatistiky s využitím Excelu. Ústí n.L.: UJEP, 2011. 48 s. ISBN 978-80-7414-398-4..
  • JELÍNEK, M., et al. Jak psát závěrečné práce na FZS UJEP. Ústí n. L.: UJEP. 2016. 36 s.. Ústí n. L., 2015.
  • ZVÁROVÁ, J. Základy statistiky pro biomedicínské obory. Praha: Karolinum, 2001. 218 s. ISBN 80-7184-786-0.. Praha, 2007. ISBN 80-7184-786-0.


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