Undertaking Midwifery Research

Part 1 An introduction to some basic principles of research: approaches to research design and statistics - some basic concepts; questionnaires, surveys and sampling; the nature of the data; techniques of descriptive statistics; testing hypotheses; designing your study; sources of error in research; matching the research design to the statistical test; putting the theory into practice; writing up the research for publication; reading published research critically. Part 2 Statistical tests: non-parametric tests for same and matched subject designs; parametric tests for same and matched subject designs; non-parametric tests for different (unrelated) subject designs; parametric tests for different (unrelated) subject designs; non-parametric and parametric statistical tests for correlatinal designs; estimation. Appendices: basic mathematical principles; statistical probability tables; answers to activities.