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| Swedish title | Kvalitativa utvärderingsmetoder inom hälsovården |
|---|---|
| English title | Qualitative Evaluation Methods in Health Care |
| Course number | 2713 |
| Credits | 1.5 |
| Responsible KI department | Institutionen för global folkhälsa |
| Specific entry requirements | Basic knowledge of qualitative methods is required. |
| Grading | Passed /Not passed |
| Established by | The Board of Doctoral Education |
| Established | 2013-03-12 |
| Purpose of the course | |
| Intended learning outcomes | At the end of the course, students will: * be able to choose an appropriate qualitative evaluation method for evaluating health systems and services for both their own and their fellow students' research questions * know the entire evaluation cycle from research questions to delivering a report |
| Contents of the course | The course will focus on qualitative evaluation methods, particularly for health systems and services research. 1. Evaluation in health systems and services 2. Overview of the theory of qualitative methods 3. Choosing your method 4. Developing your protocol 5. Ethical issues 6. Data collection 7. Data analysis 8. Preparing your report 9. Protocol discussions and presentations |
| Teaching and learning activities | The course will provide a theoretical and practical orientation to qualitative evaluation, with emphasis on choosing appropriate evaluation methods, analysing the data and presenting study protocols. The course will be delivered partly online, partly face to face. Group work methods will be used to practice skills in data collection and analysis. Lectures will be delivered online and face to face, encouraging student interaction and discussion. In addition to live discussion, and online forum will be set up where students can discuss issues and ask for peer assistance. In addition, the course will require individual reading. The course will be conducted synchronously at KI as well as other universities connected to the ARCADE network (www.arcade-project.org). The course will be 40 hours in duration. There will be 13 lecture hours and 27 ""practical"" hours for preparing a study protocol, groupwork and individual reading. On-site tutors and lecturers will hold lectures, facilitate some groupwork and facilitate presentations at the end of the course. |
| Compulsory elements | Participation in online and face to face lectures is compulsory, as is participation in the final assessment. Absence can be compensated by a 1 page summary of lecture content. |
| Examination | Students' knowledge of qualitative evaluation methods will be assessed through their preparing and presenting a qualitative evaluation protocol. This protocol will be prepared as groupwork, and presented in the last day of the course. This will contribute 70% to the course mark. Evaluation of the protocols will be done through a peer-review method. Student groups will review other groups' work as part of their examination. This will contribute 15% of the course mark. In addition, students will be given an online multiple choice exam on Moodle. This will contribute to 10% of the course mark. Finally, students' participation in online and live discussions will be assessed. This will contribute 5% of the course mark. |
| Literature and other teaching material | RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS OR BOOK CHAPTERS: Patton, M.Q., Qualitative research and evaluation methods. 3rd edition ed. 2002, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Kelly, M.J. (2004). Qualitative Evaluation method. In: Qualitative research practice, C. Seale, et al., (Eds). Sage: London. p. 520-535. Mack, N., et al., Qualitative research methods: A data collector's field guide. 2005, Family Health International: North Carolina Green, J., & Thorogood, N. (2009). Qualitative methods for health research (2nd ed.) Los Angeles, California: Sage FURTHER RECOMMENDED READING: Pope, C. & Mays, N. (2006). Qualitative Research In Health Care. Wiley Blackwell. Creswell, J. W., Hanson, W. E., Plano Clark, V. L., & Morales, A. (2007). Qualitative Research Designs: Selection and Implementation. The Counseling Psychologist, 35(2), 236-264. Fitzpatrick, R., & Boulton, M. (1994). Qualitative methods for assessing health care. Quality in health care : QHC, 3(2), 107-113. Malterud, K. (2001). Qualitative research: standards, challenges, and guidelines. Lancet, 358: p. 483-488. Richards HM and Schwartz LJ. (2002). Ethics of qualitative research: are there special issues for health services research? Family Practice; 19: 135-139. Bamberger, M.J., Rugh, J., Mabry, L.S. (2006) RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
Course responsible |
Salla Atkins Institutionen för global folkhälsa salla.atkins@ki.se |
| Contact person |
Kersti Radmark Institutionen för global folkhälsa Kersti.Radmark@ki.se Myroslava Protsiv Institutionen för global folkhälsa 08-524 833 57 myroslava.protsiv@ki.se |
