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Research methodology and other research related topics - Course files

Literature search, citing medicine, instructions for authors - Guidelines, systematic reviews - Epidemiologic studies - Screening
Qualitative research - Monitoring and evaluation of health programmes - Health planning tools
Research ethics - Research proposal - Health behavior

Course file - Author(s) References, relevant online documents and resources
Literature search, citing medicine, instructions for authors  
Entrez - PubMed - MEDLINE - Aldo Campana Internet and PubMed/Medline - Aldo Campana
Searching PubMed - Aldo Campana Internet and PubMed/Medline - Aldo Campana
Citing biomedical documents - National Library of Medicine (NLM) style - Aldo Campana Patrias K, author; Wendling D, editor. Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007-.

ICMJE: Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals - Preparing a Manuscript for Submission to a Biomedical Journal

Mulford Library: Instructions to Authors

Zotero
Biomedical journals - Instructions for authors - Aldo Campana ICMJE: Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Mulford Library: Instructions to Authors
WHO Library - Tomas Allen Cochrane Collaboration

Cochrane Library

Embase

Google Scholar

PubMed

WHO Library and Information Networks for Knowledge
Guidelines, systematic reviews  
WHO guidelines on sexual and reproductive health - Heli Bathija WHO | Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

WHO | Sexual and Reproductive Health
Systematic review - Karim Abawi Cochrane Collaboration

Joanna Briggs Institute

Campbell Collaboration

Centre for Evidence-based Medicine

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

Bandolier

PubMed Clinical Queries
Epidemiologic studies  
Epidemiologic studies - Karim Abawi Aschengrau A, Seage GR. Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health. Second ed. Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 2008.

Epi Glossary | CDC Reproductive Health.

Clinical Epidemiology Glossary. Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit.
Cohort studies - Nguyen Thi My Huong Rochon PA, Gurwitz JH, Sykora K, Mamdani M, Streiner DL, Garfinkel S, Normand ST, Anderson GM. Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 1. Role and design. BMJ. 2005 Apr 16;330(7496):895-7.

Mamdani M, Sykora K, Li P, Normand ST, Streiner DL, Austin PC, Rochon PA, Anderson GM. Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 2. Assessing potential for confounding. BMJ. 2005 Apr 23;330(7497):960-2.

Normand ST, Sykora K, Li P, Mamdani M, Rochon PA, Anderson GM. Readers guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 3. Analytical strategies to reduce confounding. BMJ. 2005 Apr 30;330(7498):1021-3.

Thadhani R, Tonelli M. Cohort studies: marching forward. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2006 Sep;1(5):1117-23.
Case-control studies - Lale Say Rutjes AWS, Reitsma JB, Vandenbroucke JP, Glas AS, Bossuyt PMM. Case-control and two-gate designs in diagnostic accuracy studies. Clin. Chem. 2005 Aug;51(8):1335-41.

Lee W, Bindman J, Ford T, Glozier N, Moran P, Stewart R, Hotopf M. Bias in psychiatric case-control studies: literature survey. Br J Psychiatry. 2007 Mar;190204-209.
Strategies for data analysis: case-control studies - Eduardo Bergel Knol MJ, Vandenbroucke JP, Scott P, Egger M. What do case-control studies estimate? Survey of methods and assumptions in published case-control research. Am. J. Epidemiol. 2008 Nov 1;168(9):1073-81.
Strategies for data analysis: RCTs - Eduardo Bergel The CONSORT Group

Practihc
Randomized clinical trials - Mario Merialdi The Lancet epidemiology series - Grimes DA, Schulz KF
Population surveys - Lale Say Demographic and Health Surveys: MEASURE DHS

United Nations Statistics Division - Household Surveys in Developing Countries

Thrift AG. Design and Methods of Population Surveys. Neuroepidemiology. 2010 Mar 18;34(4):267-9.
Screening  
Screening - Mario Merialdi Deeks JJ. Systematic reviews in health care: Systematic reviews of evaluations of diagnostic and screening tests. BMJ. 2001 Jul 21;323(7305):157-62.

Rutjes AWS, Reitsma JB, Coomarasamy A, Khan KS, Bossuyt PMM. Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard. A review of methods. Health Technol Assess. 2007 Dec;11(50):iii, ix–51.
Qualitative research  
Introduction to qualitative research - Khalifa Elmusharaf TQR Community Qualitative Research Resources

Online QDA
Qualitative sampling techniques - Khalifa Elmusharaf TQR Community Qualitative Research Resources

Online QDA
Qualitative data collection techniques - Khalifa Elmusharaf TQR Community Qualitative Research Resources

Online QDA
Qualitative research approaches - Khalifa Elmusharaf TQR Community Qualitative Research Resources

Online QDA
Monitoring and evaluation of health programmes  
Monitoring and evaluating family planning / reproductive health programmes: an introduction - Alfredo Luis Fort For a framework and construction of indicators: J. Bertrand and Escudero, G., Compendium of Indicators for Evaluating Reproductive Health Programs, Volume One. MEASURE Evaluation Manual Series, No. 6, August 2002

For discussion on what can be accomplished with different assessments and evaluation designs
: JP Habicht, CG Victora and JP Vaughan, Evaluation designs for adequacy, plausibility and probability of public health programme performance and impact, International Journal of Epidemiology, 1999; 28: 10-18

For presentation of different types of research and evaluation designs
: AA Fisher, JR Foreit, J Laing, J Stoeckel and J Townsend, HIV/AIDS Intervention Studies: An Operations Research Handbook, The Population Council, 2002

For how to assess quality of care in facilities, including instruments
: Quick Investigation of Quality (QIQ) A User's Guide for Monitoring Quality of Care in Family Planning, MEASURE Evaluation Manual Series, No. 2, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001

For M&E plans for Adolescent SRH programs
: S Adamchak, K Bond, L MacLaren et al, A Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating Adolescent Reproductive Health Programs, FOCUS on Young Adults, Tool Series 5, June 2000
Monitoring and evaluation of family planning / reproductive health programs – health system-, project- and facility-based information - Alfredo Luis Fort Ministry of Health (MOH) [Uganda] and Macro International Inc. 2008. Uganda Service Provision Assessment Survey 2007. Kampala, Uganda: Ministry of Health and Macro International Inc.

National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development (NCAPD) [Kenya], Ministry of Medical Services (MOMS) [Kenya], Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MOPHS) [Kenya], Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) [Kenya], ICF Macro. 2011. Kenya Service Provision Assessment Survey 2010. Nairobi, Kenya: National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development, Ministry of Medical Services, Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, and ICF Macro.
Health planning tools  
Introduction to health planning tools - Moazzam Ali WHO - National health planning tools
Research ethics  
Good ethics is good research - Shyam Thapa Background handout on ethical issues in research with a focus on youth: key terms and concepts - Shyam Thapa

FHI - Research Ethics Training Curriculum

Research Ethics Review Committee (WHO ERC) - Informed assent form template for children/minors

Research Ethics Review Committee (WHO ERC) - Informed consent form template for consent for storage and future use of unused samples

Research Ethics Review Committee (WHO ERC) - Informed consent form template for clinical studies

Research Ethics Review Committee (WHO ERC) - Informed consent form template for qualitative studies

Research Ethics Review Committee (WHO ERC) - Informed parental consent template for research involving children (clinical studies)

Research Ethics Review Committee (WHO ERC) - Informed parental consent template for research involving children (qualitative studies)

Research Ethics Review Committee (WHO ERC) - The process of seeking informed consent

WHO | Research ethics

WMA Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects

World Health Organization - Research Ethics Review Committee - The Process of Seeking Informed Consent
Research proposal  
How to prepare a research protocol for WHO? - Shyam Thapa Fathalla MF. A practical guide for health researchers. WHO Regional Publications, Eastern Mediterranean Series; 30. Cairo: 2004.

Habicht JP, Victora CG, Vaughan JP. Evaluation designs for adequacy, plausibility and probability of public health programme performance and impact. Int J Epidemiol. 1999 Feb;28(1):10-8.

World Health Organization. Preparing a research project proposal. Guidelines and forms (fourth edition). Geneva 2003

Recommended format for a research protocol - In brief
Health behavior  
Introduction to health behavioral theories - Ling-Yen Pan Glanz K, Rimer BK. Theory at a Glance: A Guide for Health Promotion Practice. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH Pub. No. 05-3896. Washington, DC: NIH, Revised September 2005.