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Presentation
Presentation
This course aims to provide students with appropriate knowledge and skills that allow them to develop evidence-based, good quality, research projects, supported on the best methodological practices and ethic principles.
It aims to:
a) Encourage scientific curiosity and critical reflection focused on the available research in the field of exercise and health.
b) Stimulate knowledge and understanding of the most used theoretical models, reference authors, empirical studies and methodologies in the area of the individual scientific project, so that the student can identify the existing research gaps.
c) Mobilize theoretical and methodological knowledge to develop research projects that allow him/her to answer relevant, interesting and feasible research questions, through the implementation of appropriate methods.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Master Degree | Semestral | 4
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
1 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT792-10893
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
1. Theory of Scientific Knowledge
1.1.Evidence-based practice
2. Ethic principles
2.1.Declaration of Helsinki
2.2.Institution authorizations2.3.Informed consent
3.Individual research project
3.1.Research guidelines: SPIRIT, STROBE, PRISMA and the EQUATOR network
3.2.Step-by-step construction of a research project
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Objectives
Objectives
Aims:
1. Know the theory of scientific knowledge and the guidelines for the production of high quality scientific research.
2. Know the Ethical principles in scientific research.
3. Develop an individual research project
Knowledge and competences to acquire:
a) Encourage scientific curiosity and critical reflection focused on the available research in the field of exercise and health, to allow the identification of the available research gaps.
b) Know the guidelines for the development of different types of research studies, observational (STROBE), experimental (SPIRIT), and systematic reviews (PRISMA).
c) Develop research questions according to the FINER criteria (Feasible, Interesting, Innovative, Ethic, Relevant).
d) Develop the capacity to define study goals and hypotheses.
e) Develop a method that is able to appropriately address the study goals, according to Ethic principles and research guidelines.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
Critical elaboration of the project, departing from questions that elicit a guided discovery process.
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References
References
Chan, A.-W., Tetzlaff, J. M., Altman, D. G., Laupacis, A., Gøtzsche, P. C., Krleza-Jeric, K., et al. (2013). SPIRIT 2013 statement: defining standard protocol items for clinical trials. (Vol. 158, pp. 200¿207). Presented at the Annals of internal medicine. http://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-158-3-201302050-00583
Elm, von, E., Altman, D. G., Egger, M., Pocock, S. J., Gøtzsche, P. C., Vandenbroucke, J. P., STROBE Initiative. (2007, October 16). The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. PLoS Medicine. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040296
Page, M. J., McKenzie, J. E., Bossuyt, P. M., Boutron, I., Hoffmann, T. C., Mulrow, C. D., Shamseer, L., Tetzlaff, J. M., & Moher, D. (2021). Updating guidance for reporting systematic reviews: development of the PRISMA 2020 statement. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 134, 103–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.02.003
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
