Introducing NCCMT's latest online learning module!

Quantitative Research Designs 101

Addressing Practice-Based Issues in Public Health

As public health professionals, you face many different kinds of practice-based questions about how best to promote health, prevent illness, or treat health problems in your communities. You need the best information to help you decide what to do. Knowing about research designs can help you search for the right type of evidence to answer a question from your own practice, and to assess the quality of the research evidence you find.

Who is this module for?

Quantitative Research Designs 101 is a free, interactive and self-paced module designed for public health practitioners, program managers/directors and staff responsible for the planning and delivery of public health programs and services.

What will you learn?

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Quantitative Research Designs 101 gives you the knowledge you need to effectively and efficiently answer your practice-based questions. The module walks you through the quantitative research designs commonly used to address practice-based questions, and discusses the strengths and limitations of each design.

• Learn how to distinguish between questions about effectiveness (e.g., does a treatment or prevention intervention work?) and causation (e.g., what is the relationship between a risk factor and a health outcome?)
• Learn the most common research designs to answer your questions
• Learn which study designs are most appropriate for your questions
• Practise your knowledge and skills
• Earn a certificate of completion

Get the knowledge you need to answer your practice-based questions.

Check out Quantitative Research Designs 101: Addressing Practice-Based Issues in Public Health now!
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