Research Methods in Community Medicine: Surveys, Epidemiological Research, Programme Evaluation, Clinical Trials

This is the sixth edition of Survey Methods in Community Medicine, which has established itself as a standard guide to the design, conduct, and analysis of studies concerned with health, disease, and health care.
It is written for students and practitioners of community medicine and public health (epidemiologists, family physicians, nurses, health educators, administrators, and others) who are interested in planning investigations of groups and populations, such as health surveys, cohort studies, comparisons of cases and controls, prophylactic and therapeutic trials, and other epidemiological and evaluative research.  The book may also be helpful to non–researchers who wish to enhance their capacity for the judicious appraisal of medical literature.
It is a step by step guide to the design, conduct and analysis of these studies, and assumes little prior knowledge, but has copious notes and references for the benefit of readers who wish to learn more.
This edition has been revised and updated throughout, with the addition of –
A new chapter on the use of the Web in health research.
A guide to free computer programs for use in the planning, performance, and analysis of studies.


Spis treści:
Preface
1. First steps
2. Types of investigation
3. Stages of an investigation
4. Formulating the objectives
5. The objectives of evaluative studies
6. The study population
7. Control groups
8. Sampling
9. Selecting cases and controls for case–control studies
10. The variables
11. Defining the variables
12. Definitions of diseases
13. Scales of measurement
14. Composite scales
15. Methods of collecting data
16. Reliability
17. Validity
18. Interviews and self–administered questionnaires
19. Constructing a questionnaire 
20. Surveying the opinions of a panel: consensus methods
21. The use of documentary sources
22. Planning the records 
23. Planning the handling of data
24. Pretests and other preparations
25. Collecting the data
26. Statistical analysis 
27. Interpreting the findings 
28. Making sense of associations
29. Application of the study findings
30. Writing a report 
31. Rapid epidemiological methods
32. Clinical trials
33. Programme trials
34. Community–oriented primary care
35. Using the Web for health research
Appendix A Community appraisal: a checklist 
Appendix B Random numbers
Appendix C Free computer programs
Index


Okładka tylna:
This is the sixth edition of Survey Methods in Community Medicine, which has established itself as a standard guide to the design, conduct, and analysis of studies concerned with health, disease, and health care.
It is written for students and practitioners of community medicine and public health (epidemiologists, family physicians, nurses, health educators, administrators, and others) who are interested in planning investigations of groups and populations, such as health surveys, cohort studies, comparisons of cases and controls, prophylactic and therapeutic trials, and other epidemiological and evaluative research.  The book may also be helpful to non–researchers who wish to enhance their capacity for the judicious appraisal of medical literature.
It is a step by step guide to the design, conduct and analysis of these studies, and assumes little prior knowledge, but has copious notes and references for the benefit of readers who wish to learn more.
This edition has been revised and updated throughout, with the addition of –
A new chapter on the use of the Web in health research.
A guide to free computer programs for use in the planning, performance, and analysis of studies.