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General information

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Marc Terradellas Fernández

Trimester: Second term

Credits: 6

Teaching staff: 

Carles Fernández Jané
Guillem Pera Blanco 

Teaching languages

  • Spanish
  • Catalan

Skills

Basic skills

  • B5 That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy

Specific skills

  • E14_F Incorporate the ethical and legal principles of the profession into professional practice, as well as integrate social and community aspects into decision-making

     

  • E15_F Participate in the development of physiotherapy care protocols based on scientific evidence, encouraging professional activities that stimulate research in physiotherapy

     

  • E17_F Understand the importance of updating the knowledge, skills and abilities and attitudes that make up the professional competencies of the physiotherapist

     

  • E19_F Know how to communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, with users of the healthcare system, as well as with other professionals

     

Transversal competences

  • T2 Apply information and communication technologies (ICT) to the field of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences

  • T1 Understand the scientific literature in the field of physical activity and sport in English and other languages ​​with a significant presence in the scientific field.

Description

The rapid development and growth of the various fields of Health Sciences has resulted in the need to support our clinical practice in scientific evidence. Currently, it is no longer enough to justify decision-making with observation, but it is necessary to objectify and measure the effectiveness and validity of our interventions and treatments.


So that the results of a research study are reliable and can be extrapolated to the clinical field, it is necessary that the entire research process is developed according to a certain and systematic methodology. Also, Biostatistics must be responsible for defining, synthesizing and interrelating the data obtained with the research with the aim of providing an objective measure of the object of study.


Therefore, the aim of this subject is, on the one hand, to teach students the basics of the scientific method and provide the basics and basic tools
of work to be able to design, analyze and, especially, interpret a research project.

Contents

BLOCK I: The scientific method
Topic 1: Introduction to research in Health Sciences

Topic 2: Quality of evidence, systematic error (bias) and random error (precision)

Topic 3: The phases of research in Health Sciences

  • Introduction
  • The research question
  • Objectives and hypotheses
  • Introduction and justification
  • Types of epidemiological designs
  • The population under study.
  • Tools for data collection

Topic 4: Ethics in clinical research.

Topic 5: Diffusion of research

BLOCK II: Search and use of scientific information
Topic 6: Information sources and bibliographic search

  • Information sources
  • Bibliographic search

Topic 7: Bibliographic citation and bibliographic reference managers

  • Basics
  • Zotero

BLOCK III: Biostatistics
Unit 8: Introduction to Statistics

  • Databases
  • Statistical packages
  • Types of variables and measurement scales

Item 9: Descriptive statistics

  • Frequency tables
  • Contingency and categorization tables.
  • Indices and rates
  • Central tendency estimators
  • Dispersion and position estimators

Topic 10: Probability distributions
Unit 11: Inferential statistics

  • Hypothesis test
  • Types of errors and p-value
  • Punctual estimators
  • Confidence intervals
  • Comparison of averages
  • Comparison of proportions
  • Correlation and regression

 

Evaluation system

Evaluation system

Weighting

SE1. portfolios

15%

SE2. exhibition

25%

SE3. Exam

50%

SE4. Self evaluation

5%

SE5. Peer evaluation (2P2) or co-evaluation

5%

To pass the subject it is necessary to obtain a grade of 5/10 in the final exam.
According to current regulations, only those students who have obtained a failing grade in the final exam during the regular period may take the make-up exam.
Continuous assessment is not recoverable.

REFERENCES

Basic

Salamanca Castro, AB (2013). He aeiou of nursing research. Madrid, Editorial FUDEN

Argimón JM, Jimenez J. (2019). Clinical Research Methods and Epidemiology (5th ed.) (ON PAPER). Elsevier.

Fletcher RH, Fletcher SW, Fletcher GS (2016). Clinical epidemiology (5th edition). Llobregat Hospital (Barcelona). Lippincott Williams Publishing
and Wilkins. Wolkers Kluwer Health

Reyes A. (2013). Search techniques and use of information. Madrid: University Publishing Ramón Areces.