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Register-based Research
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:20.09.2023 15:30:16
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SVUEK_033 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Public Health | Target Audience: | Public Health | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Irisa Zīle-Velika | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Public Health and Epidemiology | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 9 Kronvalda boulevard, svek rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67338307 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 1 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 4 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Public health, statistics, basic epidemiology - according to the content of bachelor study programs in Health Care specialties. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To train students for research work, based on health registers data. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Health registers: definitions, aims. Data protection, legislation, ethics. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Health registers: definitions, aims. Data protection, legislation, ethics. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Health registers in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Health registers in Latvia. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Research opportunities, provided by health registers. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Research opportunities, provided by health registers. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Limitations and challenges of register-based research. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Limitations and challenges of register-based research. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Preparing of a research project, based on registers data. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | During classes – calculation of epidemiologic measures both individually and in groups. At home – an investigation of a preferred health register in order to prepare a presentation (at the beginning of the course); selection and analysis of an article of a register-based study (during the course); preparing a research proposal (by the end of the course). At the end of the study course, please fill in the course evaluation qustionnaire. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | • Presentation of a health-related register in Latvia, emphasizing legislative regulation, methods of data collection, completeness and quality of data – individual work. (40%) • Written review of a register-based study publication, focusing on methods (coverage of register, quality of data, influence on study results) and ethical issues – individual work. (30%) • A proposal of a hypothetical study, using register data, including a conceptual model, study design, description and definitions of variables – individual work, submitted in written form and presented in the last seminar. (30%) • Participation in discussions during seminars. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of the course students will be able to: • list the existing health registers in Latvia and describe legislation which regulates the operation health registers; • discuss on ethical issues related with using register data for research; • recognize advantages and disadvantages of using register data for health research. | ||||||||
| Skills: | • develop a study design in accordance with type of data provided by particular registers; • prepare an appropriate data request to be submitted to the data owner or responsible institution. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | • evaluate completeness and quality of register data in relation to their suitability for research; • judge about potential effects or biases what register drawbacks can impose on study results; • critically review publications of register-based research. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Walgren A., Walgren B. Register-Based Statistics: Statistitical Methods for Administrative Data. John Wiley & Sons, 2014 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Rothman K.J., Greenland S., Lash T.L. Modern Epidemiology. 4th ed. Lippincott Williams&Wilkins, 2021. Chapter 23: Olsen J. Using Secondary Data – Pp.481-491. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Nacionālais veselības dienests un citas iestādes, kuru pārziņā atrodas reģistri | ||||||||
| 2 | www.likumi.lv; | ||||||||
| 3 | pētījumu publikācijas. | ||||||||
