Course Code : SYB 121 

Course Name: RESEARCH METHODS IN HEALTH SCIENCES

Weekly lecture and application hours of the course: 3-0

Course description: Science, positivist and post-positivist science approaches, basic concepts used in scientific research, scientific research process and stages, critical resource analysis, sources of error in research, measurement in research, scale types, validity and reliability, sampling, research approaches, survey, interview and methods and types of observation.

Textbooks and supplementary books:

1- Research Methods in Health Sciences, Vildan Sümbüloğlu, Hatipoğlu Publishing.

Course Evaluation:

Participation / Attendance : 10%,

Mid-Term Exam : 30%,

Homework : 10%,

Final Exam : 50%,

Attendance is at least 95 % mandatory.