Group _605b____ Dozen ___12___ Surname Name __Yassine Koumail_________

PROTOCOL OF THE PRACTICAL STUDY No 1

Topic 1: "Organization of statistical surveys (research plan and program)"

Objective: to learn how to create the plan and the program of research according to the specific
topics.

NOTE! Stages of the research:

I. Creation the plan and the program of research

II. Registration and collection of the statistical material.

III. Development and throw the data together.

IV. Statistic analysis.

V. Putting of the results into practice.

Task 1. Creation the plan and the program of research

Methodology for completing the task. Based on the study of the textbook (Holyachenko O.
Social medicine and health protection organization / Holyachenko O., Shulhai A., Nykytyuk O.
—Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2005. Р.6-25) to get acquainted with the universal method of drawing
up a plan and a program of medical and statistical research. Based on your chosen one of the
proposed options, fill out the main elements of the plan and research program for future
research.

Task terms

Variant 1. Study of the incidence of infectious diseases (typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis, others)
depending on the ways of transmission of disease the causative agent (alimentary, domestic,
aqueous), on sex (male, female), on observance of personal hygiene (observe or not observe)
was in the region M. in 2022.

Variant 2. Study of morbidity of the cardiovascular system (coronary heart disease,

hypertension, rheumatism, others) depending on the weight (below normal, normal, above
normal), on sex (male, female), and physical activity (satisfactory physical activity or
hypodinamia) was in the region G. in 2022.

Variant 3. Find on the Internet scientific articles in medical journals devoted to the diseases you
are interested in, relevant to your country of residence, Come up with a project of how you
would like to study this pathology in the future. Complete the main elements of the research
plan and program.

Variant 4. If you have previously performed scientific research and you have any а publication
(your own or in co-authorship), then attach to the answer или ссылку на электронный
ресурс).
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Main elements of my research plan and program

1. The working hypothesis (the idea of the research to be proved or disproved in a course
of the work, is formulated in the form of guess):

place to fill:
maybe a discordant second opinion leads validation of the patient’s wishes when surgical intervention is
prescribed with the first opinion.

2. Name of the research:

place to fill:
Effect of a Discordant Opinion offered by Second Opinion Physician on the Patient’s Decision for Management
of Spinal Disc Disease

3. The goal of the research (What for the study is executed? What specific end result shall
be achieved?):

place to fill:
Assess the impact of a discordant second opinion (SO) on the final decision of patients regarding spinal disc
disease treatment for chronic neck and low back pain. A discordant SO may validate patients’ wishes when they
are in disagreement with the initially offered treatment and may lead to confusion when they are in agreement
with their initial physicians’ recommendations.

4. The tasks of the research (what exactly has to be? Formulate 3-4 questions to be studied
within the bounds of the topic):

place to fill:

Cross-sectional study using clinical vignettes-based questionnaires among patients presenting to the Family
Medicine, Orthopedic and Neurosurgery clinics at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.

5. The object of observation (statistical population, consisting of individuals or individual

events (units) to be studied specifically in a certain place and at a well-defined period of
time):

place to fill:
246 patients from Family Medicine, Orthopedic and Neurosurgery clinics at the American University of Beirut
Medical Center.

6. The unit (units) of observation (clearly defined individual (phenomenon), which has
features that are the subjects of registration and study depending on the goals and tasks
of the study):

place to fill:

18 years old and above pateints, coming for chronic neck or low back pain of a duration of 12 weeks or more

7. Volume of observation (show the formula, make calculation):

place to fill:
246

8. The method(s) of observation (direct registration, documenting, simulation, survey,

questionnaire method. Justify what and why):

place to fill:
questionnaire method used for easiness and quickness and ability to propose different scenarios

9. Kind of observation by time (current, intermittent, simultaneous), by volume (complete,

incomplete: monographic description, method of the main array, sampling):

place to fill:

current complete

10. The method of selection of the groups (for selective research - random selection,
breeding, directions). Describe how the sampled population will be formed:

place to fill:
The population included patients 18 years old and above, coming for chronic neck or low back pain of a duration
of 12 weeks or more. Excluded patients were those below 18 years old, illiterate, and with a previous history of
spinal surgeries.
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