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Unit of Study HLTH5009 - Practice-Based Health Research (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Learners examine a range of research methodologies that can be utilised in clinical practice environments. These methodologies include case studies, case series, clinical audits, n of 1 studies, single case experimental designs (SCED) and surveys. The learner is also introduced to whole-system research, outcome measures, good clinical practice and ethics. By understanding the purpose, operationalisation, strengths and limitations of each methodology, the learner should be able to apply these methodologies to the clinical practice setting and design clinically-relevant research projects.

Unit content

  1. Overview of practice-based research
  2. Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and human research ethics
  3. Selecting outcome measures
  4. Whole systems research
  5. Descriptive studies
  6. Interventional studies

 

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Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Term1
Term1
Lismore
Term1
Term1
Online
Term4,5
Term4,5

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

apply purpose and principles of practice-based health research to research and clinical practice

critically apply the principles of good clinical practice and human research ethics

integrate outcome measures aligned to appropriate research methodology into designed research project(s)

evaluate alignment of whole systems research, descriptive and interventional research methodologies to designed research project(s)

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