Research Methods in Rehabilitation

A.Y. 2024/2025
7
Max ECTS
56
Overall hours
SSD
ING-INF/05 M-FIL/03 M-PSI/03 MED/04 MED/06 MED/48
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The course is aimed at providing students with knowledge about: - medical ethics, in order to develop critical thinking and discussion skills on moral, legal and ethical issues related to health professions; - theories and statistical-psychometric methods
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- assess educational needs, identify effective operational tools and educational strategies in order to design training interventions according to the characteristics and needs of the trainees
Single course

This course can be attended as a single course.

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Prerequisites for admission
Basic knwoldege of descriptive statistic
Assessment methods and Criteria
The learning assessment takes place through a written test, organized in specific exam sessions, as per the Regulations.
Up to a maximum of six exam sessions may be scheduled for each academic year: two in each session.
The typology of the test is written (multiple choice quiz) with 31 closed questions with the choice between five answers, only one of which is correct; each correct question is worth one point; all correct questions give an evaluation of 30 Lode.
The total time of the written test is 45 minutes.
The exams of all the modules of the Rehabilitation Research Methodology course are carried out together on the same day and contribute equally to determining the final evaluation expressed in thirtieths with the mathematical average of the partial grades.
The questions refer to the slides presented in the classroom and available in ARIEL, to the recommended texts and to the bibliography provided by the teacher.
No intermediate or early exam sessions are planned.
Didactic materials or notes are not admitted for the test.
The results are published online on the course's ARIEL website and students can view the test upon request.
The exam is recorded using the University's online procedure.
Sistemi di elaborazioni delle informazioni Modulo
Course syllabus
Program:
Outcome assessment:
Planning the Measurements: Precision, Accuracy, and Validity
Data Management
Instrumented analysis for functional analysis
Teaching methods
The teaching consists of frontal classroom lessons and group discussion on key documents with and without digital tools. Teaching is scheduled according to a timetable published on the ARIEL website of the master degree
Teaching Resources
Designing Clinical Research, 4e
Stephen B. Hulley, Steven R. Cummings, Warren S. Browner, Deborah G. Grady, Thomas B. Newman
Slide e bibliografia a cura del docente
Materiale Facoltativo: Leslie Gross Portney, Mary P. Watkins. Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice, 3rd Edition - Part 3 - Portney & Watkins ©2000
Patologia generale
Course syllabus
Characteristics of the immune system
Acute inflammatory response
Systemic responses of acute inflammation
Chronic inflammatory response
Benign and malignant neoplastic disease
What is a clinical research project
Different types of clinical research projects
How to write a scientific article
Teaching methods
The teaching consists of frontal classroom lessons, scheduled according to a timetable published on the ARIEL website of the master degree
Teaching Resources
Pontieri ELEMENTI di PATOLOGIA GENERALE Per i corsi di Laurea in Professioni Sanitarie Piccin
Rubin Patologia generale: l'essenziale Piccin
Cairo, Recalcati, Tacchini QUICK REVIEW: PATOLOGIA EdiSES
Oncologia
Course syllabus
- Fundamentals of clinical research (hypothesis, experimental phase, discussion of results)
- Epidemiology and risk factors of tumors
- Diagnostic Procedure, screening test in oncology
- Value of clinical trials, observational and experimental trials, cohort study, study with historical control group, randomized studies
- Phase I clinical studies: objectives, methods, interpretation of results
- Phase II clinical studies: objectives, methods (Simon test, clinical response assessment), interpretation of results
- Phase III clinical studies: objectives, methods (Survival evaluation, median Survival), interpretation of results
- Phase IV studies
- Studies with historical controls: limits and advantages
- Non inferiority studies
- Meta-analysis: limits and advantages
- Planning a clinical trial (ethical committee, inclusion and exclusion criteria, informed consent)


- the basics of cancer immunology
- immune checkpoint inhibitors
- writing a project for a clinical research grant
- planning of a clinical trial from design to dissemination
- personalized and gender medicine
- how to present the results of the research project at a conference (posters, oral communications)
- how to write a scientific paper
- the EQUATOR network guidelines for the different types of study
Teaching methods
Lectures

Tutorials
Flipped classroom
Teaching Resources
Slide and references provided by the teacher
Scienze infermieristiche e tecniche neuropsichiatriche e riabilitative
Course syllabus
Basic concepts on rehabilitation research
Characteristics and pitfalls in rehabilitation studies
Experimental designs
Observational studies
Experimental studies in rehabilitation.
Examples from the field and group discussion
Teaching methods
The teaching consists of frontal classroom lessons and group discussion on key documents with and without digital tools. Teaching is scheduled according to a timetable published on the ARIEL website of the master degree.
Teaching Resources
Designing Clinical Research, 4e
Stephen B. Hulley, Steven R. Cummings, Warren S. Browner, Deborah G. Grady, Thomas B. Newman
Slide e bibliografia a cura del docente
Materiale Facoltativo: Leslie Gross Portney, Mary P. Watkins. Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice, 3rd Edition - Part 3 - Portney & Watkins ©2000
Filosofia morale
Course syllabus
- Philosophical ethics: meta-ethics, normative ethics, applied ethics; moral dilemmas.
- Normative ethics and theories of justice.
- Distributive justice and medical resources.
- Patient autonomy and medical ethics as role ethics.
- Informed consent.
- The problems of defensive medicine.
- Research ethics and integrity.
Teaching methods
Teaching is delivered through face-to-face classroom lectures with the aid of PowerPoint presentations. Students will be encouraged to express and argue their views on the issues covered.
Teaching Resources
-C. Del Bò, Etica del turismo, Carocci, 2017, only chapter 2.
-material is distributed in class.
Psicometria
Course syllabus
1)The stages of scientific research (2 LESSONS)
2) Validity of research (1 LESSON)
3) Validity and reliability of measurement. Concept of quantification and measurement: overview of measurement scales and tests (2 LESSONS)
4) Experimental and non-experimental and clinical research (3 LESSONS)
Teaching methods
Lectures and group exercises.
Teaching Resources
Materials provided by the teacher.
Filosofia morale
M-FIL/03 - MORAL PHILOSOPHY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 8 hours
Professor: Ferraro Francesco
Oncologia
MED/06 - MEDICAL ONCOLOGY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 8 hours
Patologia generale
MED/04 - EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 8 hours
Professor: Gammella Elena
Psicometria
M-PSI/03 - PSYCHOMETRICS - University credits: 2
Lessons: 16 hours
Professor: Mangialavori Sonia
Scienze infermieristiche e tecniche neuropsichiatriche e riabilitative
MED/48 - NURSING IN NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND REHABILITATION - University credits: 1
Lessons: 8 hours
Professor: Cattaneo Davide
Sistemi di elaborazioni delle informazioni Modulo
ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS - University credits: 1
Lessons: 8 hours
Professor: Cattaneo Davide
Professor(s)
Reception:
Wednesday from 11am to 4pm
Larice Lab - IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi - Via Capecelatro 66, Milan
Reception:
By appointment via e-mail
Reception:
On Thursdays, at 3 p.m.
CET, via Pace 9 Milano, Pad 2, first floor