HLTH433 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Operationalization, Empiricism, Active Ingredient
30 Jan 2017
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A systematic process of enquiry that aims to generate new knowledge. Recognized as a source of evidence because of its systematic process aimed at making valid inferences about the causal effect of the intervention on outcomes. The philosophy of science is related to the scientific approach to acquire knowledge. Systemic empiricism: objective and systemic observation not influenced by biases. A clear, accurate and complete methods section is necessary: failure to replicate: Real change due to change in time (historically) Public: research must be communicated with others, others can verify and validate the results. Describing: systematic observation of characteristics of phenomena, describes the way things are without explaining why (causes are not being explored) Describing symptoms of diabetes but not the causes. Phenomena can be described in many levels (cellular, biochemical, behavioural, etc. ) Description can be through classifying, ordering and correlating.
