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Health Administration 399: Evaluating Health Research Evidence is designed to help students understand and use health research evidence and strengthen their research knowledge and skills in order to make informed decisions in their practice. These skills include the ability to understand and interpret the research literature and the capacity to translate knowledge into action.

Unit 1: Canadian Health Research Websites

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Statistics Canada
Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts

Unit 2: Research Questions and Sources of Evidence

Primary Health Care Research & Information Service (2016). Getting Started Guide: Grey Literature.
Grey Literature: What is is & how to find it

Unit 3: Quantitative Research Designs

Statistics Canada Minister of Industry. (2010). Survey methods and practices. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Statistics Canada.
Sibley, L. M., & Weiner, J. P. (2011). An evaluation of access to health care services along the rural-urban continuum in Canada. BMC Health Services Research, 11:20.

Unit 4: Research Ethics and Sampling

Statistics Canada. (2013). Probability sampling.
Statistics Canada. (2013). Non-probability sampling.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. (2014). Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. Ottawa: Government of Canada.
HADM 399: Quick Reference for Statistical Tests and Sample Sizes

Unit 5: Measurement and Analysis

Price, P. C., Jhangiani, R. S., & Chiang, I. A. (2015). Psychological measurement. Research methods in psychology. (2nd Canadian ed.). (pp. 74–91). British Columbia: Open BC Campus.
Khan Academy. (n.d.). Correlation and causality.
Miller, A. B., Wall, C., Baines, C., Sun, P., To, T., & Narod, S. A. (2014). Twenty five year follow-up for breast cancer incidence and mortality of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study: Randomised screening trial. BMJ, 348: g366.

Unit 7: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research

Noble, H., & Smith, J. (2015). Issues of reliability and validity in qualitative research. Evidence Based Nursing, 18, 34–35.
Creswell, J. W., Klassen, A. C., Plano Clark, V. L., & Smith, K. C. (n.d.) . Best practices for mixed methods research in the health sciences. USA: Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR).
Jeanfreau, S. G., & Jack, L. (2010). Appraising qualitative research in health education: Guidelines for public health educators. Health Promotion Practice, 11(5): 612–617.

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Black, A. T., Balneaves, L. G., Garossino, C., Puyat, J. H., & Qian, H. (2015). Promoting evidence-based practice through a research training program for point-of-care clinicians. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 45(1), 14–20.

Unit 8: Conducting a Literature Review

Pautasso, M. (2013). Ten simple rules for writing a literature review. PLOS Computational Biology, 9(7), 1–4.

Practice Quiz Article

Muggah, E., Dahrouge, S., & Hogg, W. (2012). Access to primary health care for immigrants: results of a patient survey conducted in 137 primary care practices in Ontario, Canada. BMC Family Practice, 13: 128.

Quiz 1 Article

Kobayashi, K., & Prus, S. (2012). Examining the gender, ethnicity, and age dimensions of the healthy immigrant effect: Factors in the development of equitable health policy. International Journal for Equity in Health, 11:8.

Quiz 2 Article

Kennedy, C., Ioannidis, G., Thabane, L., Adachi, J., Marr, S., Giangregorio, L., … Papaioannou, A. (2015). Successful knowledge translation intervention in long-term care: Final results from the vitamin D and osteoporosis study (ViDOS) pilot cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials, 16: 214.

Assignment 2 Articles

Garvey, K., Finkelstein, J., Laffel, L., Ochoa, V., Wolfsdorf, J., & Rhodes, E. (2013). Transition experiences and health care utilization among young adults with type I diabetes. Patient Preference and Adherence, 7, 761–769.
Garvey, K., Wolpert, H., Rhodes, E., Laffel, L., Kleinman, K., Beste, M., … Finkelstein, J. (2012). Health care transition in patients with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 35, 1716–1722.
Gorter, J., Stewart, D., Cohen, E., Hlyva, O., Morrison, A., Galuppi, B., … & TRACE Study group. (2014). Are two youth-focused interventions sufficient to empower youth with chronic health conditions in their transition to adult healthcare: a mixed-methods longitudinal prospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 5, 1–12.
Hilliard, M., Perlus, J., Clark, L., Haynie, D., Plotnick, L., Guttmann-Bauman, I., & Iannotti, R. (2014). Perspectives from before and after the pediatric to adult care transition: A mixed-methods study in type I diabetes. Diabetes Care, 37, 346–354.
Pyatak, E. A., Sequeira, P. A., Vigen, C. L. P., Weigensberg, M. J., Wood, J. R., Montoya, L., Ruelas, V., & Peters, A. L. (2017). Clinical and Psychosocial Outcomes of a Structured Transition Program Among Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes. Journal of Adolescent Health, 60(2) , 212 - 218.
Sawicki, G. S., Kelemen, S., & Weitzman, E. (2014). Ready, set, stop: Mismatch between self-care beliefs, transition readiness skills, and transition planning among adolescents, young adults, and parents. Clinical Pediatrics, 53(11), 1062–1068.
Sequeira, P., Pyatek, E., Weigensberg, M., Vigen, C., Wood, J., Ruelas, V.,. . . Peters, A. (2015). Let’s Empower and Prepare (LEAP): Evaluation of a structured transition program for young adults with Type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Care, Apr, doi.org/10.2337/dc14-2577.

Study Guide: Videos

The Role of Research Evidence in Health Administration [Unit 1 video]

Research Questions [Unit 2 video]

Common Data Collection Methods [Unit 3 video]

Quantitative Data Analysis [Unit 5 video]

Strengths and Limitations of Study Design [Unit 6 video]

Qualitative Research and Mixed Methods [Unit 7 video]