Data analysis workshops to enhance analytical skills among health professionals: an experience of conducting workshop with hands-on training on SPSS.

نویسندگان

  • Muhammad Faisal Rahim
  • Ammar Zaman Khan
  • Arif Mehmood
  • Ali Yawar Alam
  • Omer M Skeikh
  • M Kaleem Quadri
چکیده

INTRODUCTION Research data often remains unanalyzed and unpublished due to incompetency in statistical software usage. Lack of planning before data collection has severely impaired the quality of research in Pakistan. Most of the researchers are unaware of usage of statistical software like SPSS, Epi info, SAS, R. and most of the Data Analysis is done through the employment of a bio-statistician, which compromises the confidentiality and increase their dependency. Today, there are a wide variety of userfriendly software available for Data Analysis which includes SPSS,EPI Info which relatively easy to use, and there are few like STATA, SAS, and RAV Man are a bit more complicated. Our goal is to educate faculty members and enable them to achieve an intermediate level of competency in the area of statistical software usage (SPSS). The researcher should fully comprehend the capability of this software, and be able to employ statistical tests in their research papers. The main benefit from these workshops on data analysis is that it will give the novice and existing researcher to have a clear understanding of this software. This will allow the participants to use different statistical tests in their areas of research. In addition, it will dramatically improve skills of data analysis and they can easily interpret results in their research paper. Concepts which allows researcher to apply regression models, e.g., logistic regression and linear regression will provide a more holistic approach to research studies. Frequently these concepts remain ignored and overlooked by the common researcher. However, we intend on eliminating this deficiencies through these workshops. This introduction to statistical software will create a more inquisitive nature on behalf of the researcher. Furthermore this awareness will promote the usage of statistical software and ease the transition towards more complex software usage. For the last 5 years we have been conducting workshops on data analysis using SPSS. Currently, we want to gauge the level of skills acquired after attending these workshops. We conduct 9 hour workshops over 5 days. The workshop format covers basic, intermediate, and advanced levels. We try to cover all aspects of the software training using hand-on practice sessions on each topic. Basic analytical testing includes statistical tests like descriptive statistics, frequency tables and graph, cross tabulation, intermediate level tests include Chi-sq test and Independent sample t-test, correlation and Advance concepts were given with hands-on practice on Logistic Regression, Linear Regression, ANOVA and Kaplan Miers Survival Curve in SPSS.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC

دوره 20 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008