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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: The Role of Research Evidence in Health Administration

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Mikkonen, J., & Raphael, D. (2010). Social determinants of health: The Canadian facts. Toronto: York University School of Health Policy and Management.

Please view the Unit 1 video presentation.

Unit 2: Research Questions and Sources of Evidence

Simon Fraser University Library. (n.d.). Grey literature: What it is & how to find it. Retrieved from https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/format-type/grey-literature

Please view the Unit 2 video presentation.

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), 1–11.

Please view the Unit 3 video presentation.

Unit 4: Research Ethics and Sampling

Wilson VanVoorhis, C. R., & Morgan, B. L. (2007). Understanding power and rules of thumb for determining sample sizes. Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 3(2), 43–50.

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.

Weir, W., & Wuttunee, W. (2004). Respectful research in Aboriginal communities and institutions in Canada. In B. Fairbairn & N. Russell (Eds.), Co-operative membership and globalization (pp. 207–236). Saskatoon, SK: Centre for the Study of Co-operatives.

Fairbairn, B., & Russell, N. (Eds.). (2004). Co-operative membership and globalization. Saskatoon, SK: Centre for the Study of Co-operatives.

HADM 499: 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.

Please view Unit 5 video presentation.

Unit 6: Research Design Validity

Please view the Unit 6 presentation on the strengths and limitations of the study designs listed in Tammemägi (2014)—Chapter 6 of the course text.

Unit 7: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research

Noble, H., & Smith, J. (2015). Issues of reliability and validity in qualitative research. Evidence Based Nursing, 18(2), 34–35.

Creswell, J. W., Klassen, A. C., Plano Clark, V. L., & Smith, K. C. (2011). 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.

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.

Please view the Unit 7 video presentation.

Unit 8: Conducting a Literature Review

Dublic City University Student Support & Development (n.d.) Scientific Literature Review.

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

Unit 10: Program Evaluation

Perrin, K. M. (2015). Purpose. In Principles of evaluation and research for health care programs (pp. 1–28). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

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), 1–6.

Quiz 2 Article

Eskicioglu, P., Halas, J., Sénéchal, M., Wood, L., McKay, E., Shen, G., Dean, H., & McGavock, J. (2017). Peer mentoring for Type 2 diabetes prevention in First Nations children. Pediatrics, 133(6), e1624–e1631

Quiz 3 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), 1–11.

Assignment 3 Articles

Insitu. (n.d.) Interview Protocol.

Abdi, S., & Mensah, G. (2016). Logic model—A planning and evaluation tool. Public Health Ontario.

Quality Improvement and Innovation Partnership. (2010). Logic model resource guide for family health teams. Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.