Undergraduate LTU-HEA102-2022
Research and Evidence in Practice
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.
$1,002 $0
Your upfront cost: $0
Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- HECS-HELP
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 29 Aug 2022
QS RANKING 2022
21
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
13
Subject details
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- explain the different forms and roles of evidence in health care practice, including the key stages of research development;
- utilise systematic search methods to obtain, interpret and summarise key design elements of peer-reviewed journal articles or other forms of evidence-based material;
- identify, discuss and interpret selected research outcomes and basic statistics from peer-reviewed journal articles, or other forms of evidence-based material, and estimate the relevance and importance of these outcomes to consumers;
- demonstrate digital media skills that effectively communicate research-based guidance;
- demonstrate capacity to engage in an evidence-based approach to critically evaluate health-related challenges to promote sustainable thinking and problem solving in the contemporary world.
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- Introduction
- Ethics in Research and Practice
- Asking Questions to Guide your Search for Evidence
- 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
- Reliabilty 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 Ration, Risk Ration, Confidence Interval
- Probability (p-values), statistical significance and power
- Treatment Effects and Forest Plots
- Meta-analysis
In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-HUN-DEG-2021
- LAT-HUN-DEG-2022
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - This subjects is offered via Open Universities Australia, late enrolments are generally not permitted past the published close of application date for the study period. For students not enrolled in the prerequisite courses, you may be able to undertake these subjects with approval of your home course coordinator, please contact ASK La Trobe for assistance. Students who successfully complete two from the four open enrolment subjects (HBS101, DTN101, CHM101, PHE102) may apply under the Academic Eligibility category for admission to the restricted Bachelor of Food and Nutrition. You must be enrolled in the Bachelor of Food and Nutrition to be eligible to enrol in all other non-open access subjects offered in the degree.
In this subject students will be introduced to essential skills for evidence-based practice in the field of human nutrition through online activities and discussions. A systematic 5-step approach will be used to build basic skills in formulating answerable questions, searching for relevant research articles, critically appraising the evidence and evaluating the applicability of the evidence. Students will develop a basic understanding of 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. Students will also consider the complex interaction between social, economic and environmental influences that contribute to sustainability thinking. This subject addresses La Trobe's Sustainability Thinking Essential. Sustainability Thinking entails deep appreciation of how the choices we make affects the natural, economic, social, political and cultural systems - now and in the future.
- 10 questions (150 words equiv) (15%)
- 20 questions (350 words equiv) (20%)
- 1000 word written essay (25%)
- 800 word search strategy (10%)
- 1500 word written essay (30%)
Current study term: 28 Aug 22 to 27 Nov 22