Community Diagnosis and Research Methods

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. describe community entry and advocacy, sensitisation and mobilisation; 2. explain community recognisance, mapping and identification of community resources; 3. define house numbering; 4. explain design and use of survey instruments for community diagnosis; 5. enumerate data collection methods and tools; 6. describe data analysis, interpretation and write-up; 7. design intervention, health programmes; 8. discuss with community stakeholders for health programme intervention and prioritisation; 9. recommend plan of action and follow-up and disseminate results; 10. identify health research topic for execution through prioritisation of health problems; 11. write a research proposal and conduct a literature review on the research topic; 12. discuss aim and objectives of the research, research methods, research instruments; 13. discuss ethical considerations; and 14. conduct a research.

Community diagnosis, community entry and advocacy. Community sensitisation and mobilisation. Community recognisance and community mapping and identification of community resources. House numbering, design and use of survey instruments for community diagnosis. Data collection methods and tools, data analysis, interpretation and write-up, plan for intervention, health programmes. Discussion with community, stakeholders for health programme intervention and prioritisation. Recommendation for plan of action and follow-up, dissemination of results. Research methods. Definition and types, identification of health 85 research topic for execution through prioritisation of identified health problems. Writing a research proposal, conducting a literature review on the research topic, aim and objective of the research, research methods. Research instruments, ethical considerations, limitation to research being undertaken, data collection, management, analysis and presentation. Results and discussion, conclusions and recommendations, literature citation, appendices.