Research and Evidence in Practice
UndergraduateLTU-HEA1022025
Master ways to apply evidence-based practice in human nutrition. Develop skills for interpreting and evaluating evidence and managing constraints.You’ll explore social, economic and environmental factors that challenge and influence your thinking.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 24 Aug 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025,
- 1 Sept 2025
- Price from
- $1,164
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Research and Evidence in Practice
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Recognise and describe the different research paradigms and methodologies that informs evidence based practice.
- Interpret and summarise key design elements of peer reviewed journal articles and other forms of evidence based material to communicate common research and statistical terminology.
- Explain the different study designs including strengths and weaknesses, used in health scientific literature and NHMRC levels of evidence.
- Interpret selected research outcomes and basic statistics from peer-reviewed journal articles, and other forms of evidence-based material.
- Apply an evidence-based approach to evaluate health-related challenges and problem solving in the contemporary world.
- Ethics in Research and Practice
- Acquiring the Evidence
- Introduction to Quantitative Research Design
- Introduction to Qualitative Research Design
- Sources of Bias and Threats to Validity in Qualitative and Quantitative Research
- Reliability and Rigour in Qualitative and Quantitative Research
- Outcome Measures and Scales of Measurement in Health Research
- Introduction to Descriptive Statistics and Statistical Inference
- Treatment Effects: Mean Difference, Odds Ratio, Risk Ratio, Confidence Interval
- Probability (p-values), Statistical Significance and Power
- Treatment Effects and Forest Plots
- Meta-Analysis
In this subject you will be introduced to essential skills needed to understand health research and evidence-based practice. You will develop a basic understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics, assessment of research outcomes and the strengths and limitations of key research designs and contemporary challenges of research in human nutrition. The focus is on the types of research that answer questions about the effectiveness of interventions, and about human experience and meaning and being able to interpret these.
- One 900-word search strategy (20%)
- 7-minute presentation (15%)
- One 1,000-word guided report (25%)
- One 1,500-word report (individual written assessment) (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-HUN-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Food and Nutrition
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: HBFN
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed HLT1RAE (Research and Evidence In Practice) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - A good internet connection is required due to the online delivery.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Student feedback
5 student respondents between 20 May - 12 June 2024.
80%of students felt the study load was manageable
100%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills
Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Food and Nutrition
UndergraduateLAT-HUN-DEG