Advanced Quantitative Research Methods Level 7 (7KNIP042)

Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care

Course overview

This module module contributes to your professional development by giving you a solid grounding in quantitative research methods. This will give you the skills to design, conduct and appraise your own and others’ research. This is the first module of our MRes in Clinical Research programme and thus provides a foundation for student's research methods training, complemented by our Advanced Qualitative Research Methods module taken in term 2.

Course dates

A group of people at a stall for a nursing research project

Course features

The content of this module will include:

Research design and data collection approaches.
Surveys, case-control, and cohort studies.
Clinical trials.
Prognostic and diagnostic tests.
Data types and distribution.
Access and ethics.
Hypothesis testing.
Samples and populations.
Approaches to analyses: comparisons, regression, correlation.
Analysis of categorical and continuous data.
Combining the results of independent studies.

Learning outcomes

Advanced understanding of key approaches in quantitative health research.
Advanced understanding of the application and use of appropriate quantitative research methods.
Advanced understanding of stages involved in undertaking quantitative research methods.
Advanced understanding of stages involved in undertaking quantitative research.
Advanced critical appraisal skills to interrogate the application of quantitative research approaches and methods.
Advanced skills in selecting and conducting appropriate statistical tests for quantitative data.