HEAL 315 - Research Methods in Health Promotion

(3 hours) Prerequisites: PSYC/SOCI 301 or other approved statistics course. The research process and application of research findings, as applied to community health, will be addressed. Emphasis is on the basic elements of conducting research to address community health issues, including the review and critique of published research with consideration of the application of research findings in health promotion program planning and evaluation. Detailed study of research methods will include quantitative and qualitative tools, analyzing the benefits and limitations of different designs. Issues of researcher positionality, notions of objectivism, questions of epistemology, and the trend in the field towards mixed-methods approaches will be discussed and debated.