Workshop on 沙巴体育 Methodology and Statistics 28th to 30th March 2019

沙巴体育 College of Nursing 沙巴体育, MAHE conducted three days’ workshop on 沙巴体育 Methodology and Statistics from 28th March 2019 to 30th March, 2019 at CCEID, 5th Floor, Health Sciences Library Building, MAHE, 沙巴体育.

April 04, 2019

The workshop was conducted as one of the activities of Pillar II - Excellence in 沙巴体育 of MCON under the guidance of Dr Baby S Nayak, Professor, MCON, 沙巴体育. The three days’ workshop was coordinated by Dr. Melita Sheilini, Asst. Professor-Selection Grade, MCON, 沙巴体育 and Dr Binil V, Asst. Professor-Senior Scale, MCON, 沙巴体育.

A total of 38 participants had registered which included 22 faculty members, 11 post graduate students and 5 PhD Scholars. Participants were from various disciplines, viz: Nursing, Medicine, Dentistry, Engineering, Allied Health, Management, Pharmacology and Naturopathy from across the country.

Ten speakers, from across different disciplines, viz: Nursing, Medical, Allied Health and Statistics deliberated on various topics on three days. The sessions were very engaging and the participants were actively involved. The deliberations on three days gave a bird’s eye view of the various research methodologies and the statistics.
Dr. Shashidhara Y.N., Professor & Head, Department of Community Health Nursing, MCON 沙巴体育 took a session on ‘Literature Search’ at 8.30 am on the first day of the workshop. He highlighted on the purpose and the different databases which can be used for the literature search.

Following this, the programme was formally inaugurated by the Chief Guest Dr Poornima Baliga, Pro-Vice Chancellor-Faculty of Health Sciences, MAHE, 沙巴体育. Dr. Poornima Baliga, in her speech, emphasized on the importance of research and motivated the participants to bring out quality publications with the quality research work by forming teams and inculcate the healthy research culture.

The second session of the day was on Writing 沙巴体育 Proposal by Dr Elsa Sanatombi Devi, Professor & Head, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, MCON, 沙巴体育. The participants were sensitized about the purpose, components of a good research proposal and the art of writing effective research proposal.

Qualitative 沙巴体育 Design was dealt by Dr Mamatha S Pai, Professor & Head, Department of Child Health Nursing, MCON, 沙巴体育. The topic highlighted on the characteristics, various approaches, steps in planning qualitative research, sampling, data collection and analysis in qualitative research.

The post lunch session began with a talk on Mixed Method 沙巴体育 Design by Dr Baby S Nayak, Professor, Department of Child Health Nursing, MCON, 沙巴体育. The talk highlighted on the areas like purpose, study designs and the sampling in mixed method research.

The last session for the day was Sample Size Estimation by Dr Ravishankar N, Asst. Professor, Department of Statistics, MAHE, 沙巴体育. The participants were made clear about the sample size estimation for various studies followed by the self-work given to the participants on sample size calculation.

Second Day of the workshop started with a talk on Quantitative 沙巴体育 Design by Dr Veena Kamath, Professor, Department of Community Medicine, KMC, 沙巴体育. The session brought out highlights on the various study designs used in Quantitative research with the discussion of studies published using different study designs.

This was followed by Data Collection Techniques & Methods and Data Collection Instruments-Validity and Reliability by Dr Sonia R B D’souza, Professor, Department of OBG Nursing, MCON, 沙巴体育. The sessions were lively with the work sessions on validity and reliability of the tools.

The last session for the day was on Ethics in 沙巴体育 by Dr Joseph Thomas, Professor, Department of Urology, KMC, 沙巴体育. The session threw many questions on the areas of ethics with various illustrations on research work carried out and published articles.
The sessions for the 3rd day began with the half-day session on the use of SPSS including practice session by Dr Ravishankar N, Asst. Professor, Department of Statistics, MAHE, 沙巴体育. It was purely a hand on experience on how to enter and handle data in SPSS software.
The post lunch session was on analysis and interpretation of data including test of significance by Dr Vasudeva Guddattu, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, MAHE, 沙巴体育. The session sensitized the participants on various statistical tests and the interpretation of the statistical results.
The last session for the day was on Communicating 沙巴体育 Findings by Dr Abraham Samuel Babu, Asst. Professor-Senior Scale, Department of Physiotherapy, SOAHS, 沙巴体育. The session highlighted on the myths about publishing, indexing, impact factor and the various ways of communicating research findings.
The three days’ workshop concluded with closing remarks by Dr.Anice George, Dean, MCON, 沙巴体育 and the certificates were distributed to the participants. MAHE awarded One credit for this workshop on 沙巴体育 methodology and Statistics. The participants conveyed that the workshop was very useful and they look forward for more of such workshops and practical sessions on literature search.