COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is specially designed for healthcare professionals and will provide the knowledge, skills, and competencies required for conducting real world research in healthcare, based on action research principles. It will be conducted on a virtual platform.

Participants will actively, through a hands on approach, understand and apply the research process, in generating the research question from their practice, to designing the research methodology, conducting literature review, using technology to enable the process, and reporting the research .

Following this workshop participants are expected to conduct disciplined research in an area of their choosing.

PREREQUISITES

Competency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite with an account for Office 365 on the Cloud

Ability to surf and interact on the web.

Ability to search for documents and information on the web using Boolean search strategies.

To bring along a clinical problem/issue in your practice that you would like to find a solution.

(This is mandatory)

REQUIRED PRE-READING

The following resources should be accessed prior to the course

https://tinyurl.com/RESEARCHHP

COURSE FACILITATORS

LOCAL: PROF CHANDRA KUMAR (CK), DR RAVINDRAN KANESVARAN (RK),

DR DONG CHAOYAN (DC), DR HANNAH NG, DR. CHALANI UDHYAMI, DR VAIKUNTHAN RAJARATNAM (VR).

INTERNATIONAL (UK): DR WEE LEON LAM (WLL), DR NORANA A RAHMAN(NAR)

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Anyone who is engaged in clinical practice and teaching in health care with access to patient care, clinical processes, health professional education and wants to improve their scholastic and research practice.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

This course aims at introducing the basic concepts used in health care research and the research methods and approach. It includes discussions on generating research questions, research designs, strategies for analysis and reporting.

At the end of this workshop the participant should be able to:

• understand and apply the basic framework of the health care research process

• apply the various research designs and techniques

• identify various sources of information and conduct search strategies for literature review

• develop an understanding of the ethical dimensions of conducting applied research

• executing a research project using the models for data collection and analysis

• confidently draft manuscript to report finding including evaluation of its quality.

Pedagogy

Teaching methods include readings, lectures, group discussions, exercises, and assignments.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (this is a bring your own device (BYOD) workshop)

Hardware - Both Macintosh and Windows systems are acceptable, but Windows is preferable.

Your computer should have

• Broadband connectivity ( use LAN cable as it is faster)

• Video camera and microphone

• Office 365 ( worst case a trial) Download here https://products.office.com

• Free Citation manager software Zotero Download https://www.zotero.org/download/

• Create free account with https://rayyan.qcri.org/welcome

• Trial with JBI SUMARI JBI SUMARI

• Create a Gmail account with Google drive.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Basic Guideline for virtual meeting

• Stay seated and be present

• Dress appropriately

• Microphones should be muted except when speaking

• Before posting a question to the chat

• Check if anyone has asked it already and received a reply

• Stay on topic

• Do not post irrelevant links, comments, etc

• Do not type in capital letters.

PROGRAM

Meet the delegates

9 April 2021 1300-1310 GMT +08

Introduction and Understanding expectations of participants VR

Guidelines of workshop

Introduction to Moodle site for resources, Socrative and Padlet

https://tinyurl.com/RESEARCHHP

https://tinyurl.com/RESEARCHVIRTUAL

https://b.socrative.com/login/student/ ROOM RESEARCHHP

Research in Healthcare

At the end of this module, you will be able to: -

• Understand the rationale and motivation for research in health care.

• Describe the various types of research available for health care professionals.

• Apply the model/resources discussed to generate research opportunities in your practice.

o FINER = feasible, interesting, novel, ethical, relevant.

o PICOT = population (patients), intervention (for intervention studies only), comparison group, outcome of interest, time

Introduction - Rationale and motivation for research in health care 1300-1315 RV

Types of research available for health care professionals 1315 - 1330 CK

Research opportunities in your practice 1330 - 1345 RK

Q n A 5 min

Assignment 10 min

Describe an opportunity for research in your subject matter domain/practice?

Attendees to post response to Padlet and volunteers to present.

Generating Research Question (DC) 1400 - 1445

Panel Discussion – 1445 - 1500

Assignment 1500 - 1515 min

Craft a research question in your practice

Literature Review

At the end of this module, you will be able to: -

• Search for and evaluate relevant literature sources.

• Conduct search strategy for your topic and use Rayyan platform for collaboration.

• Outline, summarise and archive your data using Zotero.

Conducting Literature Review 1515 -1530 JL

BREAK 1530-1540

Zotero Demo CK 1540 -1555

Q n A 5 min

Assignment 1600 1615

Conduct a literature review and produce a summary with citations and a bibliography of at least 10 papers

Attendees to post response to Padlet and volunteers to present.

Research Design

June 13, 2020, 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM (+08:00 GMT)

SD,CK,DC,NAR

At the end of this module you will be able to: -

• Describe / apply the various types of quantitative /qualitative/mixed methods of research.

• Design your research using the categories in healthcare.

• Qualitative research in health care (with worked examples)

o Designing qualitative studies

o Patient reported experience (PREM) and Lived experiences

Quantitative /qualitative/mixed methods 1615 – 1645 RV

Designing qualitative studies 1645-1700 DC

Patient reported experience (PREM) and Lived experiences 1700 – 1715 NAR

Data Analysis and using Free Stats Software 1715-1735 CU

Process of qualitative data collection (DC) and analysis (worked examples)(NAR) 1735 – 1800

Assignment 30 min

Use the following template to help develop your research matrix and identify your activities and resources for each

Objectives Question/Hypothesis Methodology Variables Analysis Conclusions

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3

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Attendees to post response to Padlet and volunteers to present.

Reporting your research

At the end of this session, you should be able: -

• To identify and choose your quantitative data analysis.

• Describe/apply the process of qualitative data collection and analysis.

• Prepare your manuscript and understand the editors’ perspective.

Prepare your manuscript and understand the editors’ 1800-1820 WLL

Panel Discussion 1820 -1840

Assignment 1840 - 1850 min

Create a draft of your research proposal (using the template below).

Attendees to post response to Padlet and volunteers to present.

Wrap up and feedback (1850- 1900)