Al-Ghad International

College for Applied Medical

Sciences

RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
MIT 438
LECTURE NAME
Week No9
STUDY POPULATION
 Lecture objective
 By the end of this lecture the students will
be able to:
 define Study population
 Explain Population types
 Identify Inclusion and exclusion criteria
 Explain Where does study population
come from
Content
 Define Study population
 Population types
 Accessible Population
 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
 Where does study population come
from
 What is a population?
Is all inhabitants in certain area
considered or living together. May
be one nation or multination
Population types
(1) Parent population
(2) Study population
 Parent population
 Also known as target population or
reference population
 Refer to entire group of the

individuals or objects to which the

researchers can apply their findings.
 It usually has varying characteristics .
 Study population (Accessible)

 Group of individual units (persons, families,

medical records, specimens, health facilities etc.),
whom the investigator wants to study and from
whom researchers are going to draw the sample
and to which the they can apply their conclusion
 Its subset of the parent population from which the
researchers can draw their sample.
Study population (Accessible)
 Study population may be
defined or hypothetical
 Hypothetical means that

population is not existing but

may come.
 Study Population
 May be human
Could hypothetical persons
Study population: could be animals
Study population
 Could be
deceased people
Accessible Population
What are we looking for in the
accessible population?
 We draw the sample size

 We collect study data

 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
 Clearly stated criteria for including or
excluding individuals or volunteers in/out
the study
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Performed to ensure that
the study population are
eligible or qualified for
particular study
Where does study population come from?

1. Patients
 Hospitals or clinical facilities
2. Healthy people/ Volunteers
3. Group characterized by their behavior
or occupation
4. Autopsy populations
5. Records of patients or healthy people
Thank you