Quantitative Research Methods and Designs

3 credits · School of Nursing

This course introduces students to a range of non-experimental, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs used in health equity research addressing social determinants of health (SDOH). Topics include identifying researchable problems, formulating research questions/aims/hypothesis, applying operational definitions of variables, describing sampling designs, addressing ethical issues in research involving humans, evaluating data collection techniques, and critiquing analytical methods.