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Self Introduction

1. Your name
2. Your hometown
3. One favorite subject in Bachelor of
Physiotherapy Program

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 Description of the Course Syllabus
• Course Title: Research Methodology
• Course Code: BPT 3111
• Total Credit Hours: 03
• Exam Time: 03 Hours
• Total Marks: 100
- Written: 72
- Class Test/ Assignment/Presentation: 20
- Class Attendance:08

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Description of the Course Syllabus (Cont……..)
 Aim: Students will acquire knowledge and skills on
research process, principles of research utilization and
are able to write a small scale research
proposal/assignment.
 Objectives:
Upon completion of the course the students will be
able to:
• The role of research and the relationship between
research, theory and physiotherapy practice.
• The scope and applications of research.
• The process of research.
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Description of the Course Syllabus (Cont……..)
• Ethical considerations in human research.
• Quantitative research.
• The survey, descriptive and analytical.
• Prospective longitudinal and retrospective cross-
section designs.
• The logic and structure of experimental, quasi-
experimental and non-experimental designs.
• Aims, objectives and hypotheses. Independent and
dependent variables. Null and alternative hypotheses.

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• Principles of sampling, universes, populations and
samples.
• Sampling strategies, probability and purposive
sampling, random and stratified random sampling and
quota sampling.
• Calculating sample size. Response rates and drop-out.
• External and internal validity.
• Sources of bias and their reduction.
• Qualitative research.

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Description of the Course Syllabus (Cont……..)
• Ethnographic research. Gathering observation data,
covert and overt, participant and non-participant.
Constructing field notes. Gaining trust and rapport in
ethnographic research.
• The design and analysis of single-system studies.
Case studies.
• Multi-method approaches.
• Social and clinical significance.
• Critical appraisal of qualitative research reports.
• Harvard system of referencing.
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Description of the Course Syllabus (Cont……..)
Semester Final Examination Question Pattern:

• There shall be eight (08) questions. You have to answer six

(06) out of eight (08) questions.

• Each question carries twelve (12) marks.

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Books Recommended:
1.Bailey, D, M., (1991), Research for the Health Professional: A
Practical Guide.
2.Bowling, A., (1997), Research Methods in Health, Open University
Press, Buckingham, Philadelphia.
3.Depoy, E. and Gitlin, L. N., (1998), Introduction to Research:
Understanding and Applying Multiple strategies, (2ndedtion), Mosby.
4.Hicks, C., (1995), Research of Physiotherapists: Project Design
and Applications, Churchill Livingstone.

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THANK YOU

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