Ruth Sepper Katrin Gross-Paju Research design I Ruth Sepper Katrin Gross-Paju

Aim of the course Basic knowledge about scientific research One scientific project as group work During following sessions: All students will be divided to groups Research will be done as group work Research question: Maybe chosen freely During next meetings: Presentation of title, research question Group list

Timelines (week 4), MEK-209, 21.09.2015 12.15-16.00 Introduction, work group formation selection of titles for research groups. Conducting research: choosing methods and participants selected projects Homework: Selection of titles for research Group list written research proposal for selected research programmes by October 5th

Timelines II (week 6) 5.10 12.00-16.00 written research proposal for selected research topics Presentation of research proposals; Conducting research cont.: literature review

Timelines III (week 7) 12.10 12.15-16.00 Update on research projects Week Research projects 9-16 (week 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)   Week 14 Nov 30 presentation of projects Week 15 Dec 7th presentation of projects

How do you select the topic? What question interests you Are good with people Language barriers? Are good with social media What is your background experience What is really that interests you Real conditions or attidudes?

Key questions What is your research? Why do you want to do this? Short summary One sentence Why do you want to do this? Goal/time lines Seminar project PhD project Paper Funding – exact requirements Key questions Interesting Gap in literature Decision making aid

Background research Primary observation Secondary research Aim, problem and goal Secondary research Additional studies/experience, observation Information Literature publications Storing, Folders File names Web based

Key questions What is your research? Why do you want to do this? Short summary One sentence Why do you want to do this? Goal/time lines Seminar project PhD project Paper Funding – exact requirements Key questions Interesting Gap in literature Decision making aid

Key questions cont. Who? Participants Contacting methods Number, Access Contacting methods Internet Mail Email Phone hospital etc based

Key questions cont. III Where When Geographical location Costs Venue (home, interview room) Costs/time When Difficult periods Christmas, summer

Titles and topics Attidudes of workers of Tallinn University of Technology towards their work Alcohol consumption among Erasmus students Support services for students Attitudes of family physicians to home-based blood sugar measurements Physiotherapy group….

Research design - methodology Qualitative Interviews Structured Semistructured unstructured focus groups Discussion groups Focus on Attitudes, behaviour, experiences Quantitative Data generate statistics

Focus groups Moderator, facilitator Discussion group Personal interview vs discussion group Wide range of experiences/openness of participants Interaction/ not all contribute Individual views difficult to capture

Different types - Qualitative research Action research Organisational behaviour Researcher works with people, not doing research on them Ethnography Observations Grounded theory Collecting data as long as needed Feminist research Male animals and research subjects Case studies

Research design - methodology Qualitative Interviews Structured Semistructured unstructured focus groups Discussion groups Quantitative Data generate statistics

Quantitative research Experiment Treatment Survey Cross-sectional Longitudinal generalizability

Clinical trial

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Quantitative research Experiment Treatment Survey Cross-sectional Longitudinal generalizability

Mixed methods Sequential Qualitative Quantitative Focus groups Interviews Quantitative Questionnaires

Qualitative or quantitative? Attitudes: Satisfied, experience, attitudes, thoughts, behaviour How many, test, verify

Participants Number of participants Goals vs methods Quantitative Semi-structured Grounded methodology Goals vs methods

Participants II Census Sampling- small group represents large group Contact everybody Sampling- small group represents large group Careful procedure Probability samples Purposive samples

Probability samples Simple random sample Cluster sample generated by computer from the all-inclusive list Cluster sample Geographical Systematic random sample Every 2nd, 3rd etc from the list How list is generated Stratified random sample art vs science students

Purposive samples Quota sample Snow-ball Theoretical sampling represent all groups of participants Female, male, ages, interests etc Snow-ball Each participant suggests the next Theoretical sampling Pre-selected extreme cases

How many ? Preselected participants Pre-specified sub groups

Interview Structured Semistructured Unstructured Boxes for answers Qualitative social research Identical open ended questions Unstructured In depth , life history Free talk with little direction Close contact with participant

Questionnaires Close ended Open-ended Combination of both Response biases Payment for answers Extra interest

observation Medicine Anthropologists Get acquainted with the culture

Background research Primary observation Secondary research Aim, problem and goal Secondary research Additional studies/experience, observation Information Literature publications Storing, Folders File names Web based

Research titles Health care reforms E-medicine Telemedicine diseases and disease prevention/health promotion Infections Cancer/chronic disease patients Maternity issues Interaction with patients Students´ health User friendliness General practice Cultural differences Client interface systems Document exchange through systems (medical exports) Security Telemedicine Alternative (complimentary) medicine 3d printing in medicine

Next time Detailed project description Specific work groups Topic Title One sentence to describe the topic Specific work groups Next time October 5th at 12!! MEK-209 – 12:00 – 14:00 Deadline for written titles and group list 2.10.2015 Katrin.gross-paju@keskhaigla.ee