Ricerca in riabilitazione

Science and pseudoscience
Planning a research; validity and control
Research ethics
Non-experimental research
Experimentation: research designs
Single-subject designs

The logic of statistical inference
An introduction to the Gaussian model
Confidence intervals
Hypothesis testing
The most commonly used statistical tests in the rehabilitation field
An introduction to the calculation of sample size
The statistical part of a research protocol

- Epidemiology in Healthcare: definition and meanings
- Areas of application
- The risk factors
- Prevention: definition and typologies
- Illness - impairment - disability - handicap
- Epidemiological measures
- Prevalence
- Incidence
- Associations between variables
- The concept of risk
- Rates
- Indicators and the concepts of Evaluation and Quality
- Epidemiological Studies: experimental and observational
- Screening: definition of the concepts of sensitivity and specificity

Clinical sociology as a tool for social change.
Sociology and disability: data and research.
Sociology and mental health, with a focus on restraint.
Socio-economic inequalities in health: national empirical research.
Sociology, mental health and migrations: issues, data and research.
The sociological gaze on health institutions and welfare.