NUTR3921

Methods in Nutrition Practice

Course Information

These course outlines are a guide only. They are provided for the information of prospective students. Although every effort is made to ensure the most up to date information is provided, timetables often change each semester due to the availability of rooms and resources. Content (including lecture/practical topics, assessment and textbooks) is also regularly reviewed to ensure relevance and effective learning.

• Basic concepts in Survey and Questionnaire design
• Basic concepts in nutritional epidemiology
• Statistical tools in epidemiology

Ms Katherine Jukic

Room: 476

Telephone: 9351 2605

E-mail: k.jukic@usyd.edu.au

Credit average in NUTR2911 and NUTR2912

Lecture:Thursday 10:00am – 12:00pm Mechanical Engineering Lecture Theatre
Tutorial/Practical:Thursday 1:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern Avenue Seminar Room 403 or 404 (most weeks)

Beagolehole, R, Bonita, R, Kjellstrom, T, Basic Epidemiology, 2nd Ed., World Health Organisation, Geneva, 2005, ISBN 924154465

Lowrance, M, Worsley, T, (editors) Public Health Nutrition - From Principle to Practice, Allen and Unwin, 2007, ISBN 978741751024

Survey & Questionnaire Design

• Data collection methods
• Sources of health data
• Survey and research protocols
• Do's and Dont's of questionnaire design
• Ethics applications
• Pilot testing
• Coding and analysing
• Report writing
• Focus group methodology

Statistics

• Descriptive statistics
• Inference
• Confidence intervals

Nutritional Epidemiology

• Hypothesis
• Study design
• Levels of evidence
• Measures of frequency and association
• Food borne outbreaks
• Confounding nad Effect modification
• Selection bias
• Measurement error
• Causation
• Assessing quality of research papers

• Survey and questionnaire design
• Searching library databases
• Epidemiology tutorials
• Statistics computer lab tutorial

• Questionnaire design
• Conference poster
• End of semester examination