Corso di Laurea in Infermieristica - Asti

- To identify the research contribution to the management of welfare’s pathways
- To formulate a welfare – clinician query
- To identify the typology of the  epidemiological studies , their advantages and disadvantages
- To assess  the frequency and association of epidemiological Measures
- To draw up and to read a descriptive table
- To understand  an inferential analysis’ result
- To search the literature within the biomedical data banks
- To identify the characteristics of the several types of publications
- To read and understand the Systematic reviews – Meta-analyses - Guidelines
- To Analyze an experimental study
- To identify the characteristics of the Main instruments of data gathering
- To identify the Main steps of a research Protocol

- Introduction to the Evidence base  nursing and to the research’s methodology
- the Role of statistics and the epidemiology  within the research
- the Meaning of effectiveness
- Requirements of a research’s  query
- Outlines on the history of epidemiology.A  natural history model of the disease
- Models of epidemiological studies
- Measures of frequency : incidence and prevalence.
- the association’s measures. Risks.
- Introduction to Evidence base nursing and to methodology of research
- the Role of epidemiology and statistics in the research
- Type of variables
- How to present data (contingence tables, frequency’s matrices, …)
- to describe data using graphics
- Measures of central tendency and of dispersion
- Sampling and inference
- Normal distribution and confidence intervals
- Type i and Type II errors
- Statistical test: description and interpretation of p-value
- the bibliographical sources: reviews and data banks of nursing interest
- different publication’s typologies
- evaluation of a research article
- Systematic reviews / Meta-analyses / Guidelines
- Questionnaires - interviews -  observation scheme
- research Protocol