Educational guide Faculty of Chemistry |
english |
Nutrition and Metabolism (2012) |
Subjects |
SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF STUDIES IN HUMAN NUTRITION |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
Subject | SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF STUDIES IN HUMAN NUTRITION | Code | 13675104 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
3 | Compulsory | First | AN |
Competences | Learning aims | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
1. Scientific idea. Contrasting the idea of research by reviewing the scientific literature. Databases of scientific documentation: PUBMED. Practical use. Quality of scientific articles: Web of Knowledge. | |
2. Types of observational epidemiological studies: transversal, case-control and cohort studies. | |
3. Parts of a scientific protocol. Features of its sections. Summary. Introduction. Study design. Sample (characteristics and size of simple). Methods (reproducible and validated). | |
4. Experimental studies of intervention: clinical and community trials. Features, usability, advantages and disadvantages, application. | |
5. Buenas prácticas clínicas. Comité de Ética. Principios de la Declaración de Helsinki. | |
6. Criterios de Calidad Científica aplicados a los diferentes tipos de estudios. | |
7. Statistics as tool of epidemiology. | |
8. Expression of results in tables and graphs. | |
Practical activities and seminars | - Evaluation and interpretation of results of a real article. - Presentation of a real intervention study. - Structuring data collection. - Construction of a database and carrying out the corresponding statistical analysis to solve the hypothesis and the objectives set. - Interpretation of the data obtained. - Have criteria on the selection and interpretation of the important data in order to build the Tables and / or Figures to disclose our results. |