NURSNG 746 - Population Health II

3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This is an advanced course focused on randomized controlled trials and other intervention studies, which have become one of the basic research tools in evaluation the benefits and risk of new therapeutic or prevention strategies. The course will provide an in-depth examination of research design and implementation of theory-based intervention studies. The first module will help students understand how to approach population health research questions and how to design studies to answer these questions. The second module will help students understand how to establish causal statements about the efficacy and generalizability of interventions for population health. The third module is designed to review concepts and principles of outcome measurement with emphasis on reliability and validity and procedures for developing and evaluating measures. The fourth module will focus on methodological, ethical, and practical issues in the implementation of a research design for an intervention study to advance the science of nursing and healthcare.

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