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Four Workshops
 

 
 

Red workshops are Open, Blue workshops are Closed or Pending
 

 
 

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1. Measuring patient-reported health outcomes

Quality of life and patient satisfaction
 


This workshop targets the skills needed to assess health state as perceived by the client.  Participants learn to evaluate and select tests suitable for their program or patients

 


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2. How to Form a Valid Questionnaire

This hands-on workshop will equip participants with the ability to form valid questionnaires for use in their own workplace.


Well designed questionnaires are very important in health and human services, but are not well understood.

Validity is determined by three factors:

  1. the precise nature of the issues that the researcher aims to assess with the questionnaire;
  2. the exact population to which the questionnaire is to be applied;
  3. the accuracy with which the questionnaire (and the method of scoring) assesses the issues for the intended population.

Creating valid questionnaires is not difficult, as long as certain basic steps are followed. This workshop aims to provide this information.

Participants are encouraged to bring current questionnaires to be developed or improved during the workshop.

'No amount of statistical manipulation after the fact can compensate for poorly chosen questions; those that are badly worded, ambiguous, irrelevant, or even worse not present' (Streiner and Norman, 1995).

 


Sydney, one-day, Friday 24 June 2011, 'click' to download flyer and application form

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3. How to Evaluate a Healthcare or Human Services Program

How to evaluate or develop a service program in the era of evidence-based medicine & person-centred care
 

With the rise of evidence-based programs and client-centred care there has been a systematic change in the way that programs are developed and assessed in health, human services, & aged care.

This workshop examines these changes and identifies how programs and services are best evaluated or developed.
 


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4. How people make decisions

Based on the latest scientific research this workshop is equally relevant to personal relationships, management science, and policy making. 

It provides an understanding that we may need if we are to make the right decisions.


 


 “We will not rescue the Earth from our own depredations until we understand ourselves a little more” - Ian McEwen

In Paris in 1834 there lived a 20 year old man named Evariste Galois who was both a gifted mathematician and a passionate participant in republican politics (for which he was briefly imprisoned). In that year he fell in love and was challenged to a duel, ostensibly over a young woman. Aware his rival was a crack shot and that his life may soon end he worked through the night to record the basics of Group Theory, which describes the symmetries of the laws of physics and points the way to the "possible" physical theories. The next day a pistol shot through his stomach lead to peritonitis and he died within 24 hours.

The relatively short life of Evariste Galois embodies the paradox of humans. His life represented a search for truth, unbridled and seemingly erratic emotion, and a genius for explanation that added to the store of knowledge for all that follow.

In fact the scientific evidence is that emotion is essential for good decision making, but only when it is guided by the right stories. This workshop sets out this and other insights and identifies the implications for making better decisions.


Last workshop: Canberra, ACHSM One-day Workshop Friday 12 November 2010 Meetings Room University House Balmain Crescent, Acton, ACT.   'Click' to download flyer.

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