Dr. Olaf JensenSouthern Danish University &

FUECA, Cadiz University, Spain

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Basic parts of a study: ideas, literature, group work - protocol, data, analysis,

article, publication, presentation

First part of a research project: passion, ideas, (hypotesis) literature and protocol: Basic questions: What are you passionate about ?

What is the health problem?

Who is the target audience ?

What is the existing knowledge?

Search the literature, read and discuss

Which knowledge gaps are there ?

Learn to systematise the literature (Zotero)

First part of a research project: passion, ideas, (hypotesis) literature and protocol: Basic questions:

What is lacking in current practice ?

Why is your idea better ?

What is your general purpose ?

and the specific purposes ?

Do you have useful data, which ?

Do you have a team?

The first part is the idea, to answer some basic questions, do literature study in a group

Meetings, discussions, collaborate, share

Summary:

The researchers burn for their ideas

Search, read and discuss literature

Meetings in the group

Data: questionnaires, registers, interviews

Write the study plan the "protocol" - iterative

Collect data, analyse, write, publish, present

Structure of the protocol = the article IMRAD

The protocol is the start of the article - for small projects

Continued training - Epidemiology in practice

Continued training - investigacion