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8 and 9 August 2011 I have been teaching quantitative research proposal writing to Doctor of Public Health students at the School of Public Health of the University of Limpopo, Medunsa campus. The first day the focus was on on the elements of a research proposal (research problem, objectives, methods).
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4 and 5 August 2010 I have been teaching epidemiological study designs to MSc and MPH students at the School of Health Systems and Public Health at the University of Pretoria. I gave several lectures on the theory and on examples of studies, and we did two case studies using the Problem-Based Learning approach.
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Teaching epidemiological study designs to MSc and MPH students: lectures on the theory and on examples of studies, discussion of exercises and of two case studies using the Problem-Based Learning approach. Discussed were the principles, advantages and disadvantages of cross-sectional studies, case-control studies, cohort studies (both prospective and retrospective), hybrid designs (nested case-control study, case-cohort study), and randomised controlled trials.
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Assume you have just conducted a cohort study. How do you actually do the cross-tabulation in a statistical program to calculate the cumulative incidence in the groups you are comparing? And what if you have conducted a case-control study? This article gives an explanation of these two study designs and answers the following questions on how to conduct a cross-tabulation: What do you put in the columns and rows? Which percentages should be displayed and what do these mean?
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