Outcomes associated with community-based research projects in teaching undergraduate public health  

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Bouhaimed, Manal ; Thalib, Lukman ; Doi, Suhail A. R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Medical Teacher (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 30 no. 04 (May 2008), page 384.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: M37.K.2008.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Background: Community based research projects have been widely used in teaching public health in many institutions. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of information on the learning outcomes of such a teaching strategy. We therefore attempted to evaluate our experience with such a project based teaching process. Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate the factors related to quality, impact and relevance of a 6-week student project for teaching public health in the faculty of medicine at Kuwait University. Method: Interactive sessions familiarized students with research methods. Concurrently, they designed and completed a participatory project with a Community Medicine mentor. Questionnaires were used to assess quality, impact and relevance of the project, and these were correlated with multiple demographic, statistical and research design factors. Results: We evaluated a total of 104 projects that were completed during the period of September 2001 to June 2006. Three dimensions of outcome were assessed: quality; impact and relevance. The average (mean + SE; maximum of 5) scores across all projects were 2.6 + 0.05 (range 1.7-3.7) for quality, 2.8 + 0.06 (range 1.7-4.3) for impact and 3.3 + 0.08 (range 1.3-5) for relevance. The analysis of the relationship between various factors and the scores on each dimension of assessment revealed that various factors were associated with improved quality, impact or relevance to public health practice. Conclusions: We conclude that use of more objective measurement instruments with better a priori conceptualization along with appropriate use of statistics and a more developed study design were likely to result in more meaningful research outcomes. We also found that a biostatistics or epidemiology mentor improved the research outcome.

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