Essentials of Research Methodology for all Physiotherapy and Allied Health Sciences Students

Book excerpt: Part 1: Fundamentals of Research 1. Introduction to Research 2. Research in Physiotherapy 3. Research Process 4. Research Problem and Literature Review 5. Research Design 6. Sampling Design and Sampling Distributions 7. Measurement, Scaling, Data Collection and Processing 8. Ethics in Research 9. Research Reporting 10. Experimental and Non-experimental Research Designs 11. Analysis of Variance Study (ANOVA) Designs 12. Pilot Study in Research 13. Psychometric Properties of Tools 14. Qualitative Research 15. Survey Research Part 2: Statistics in Research 16. Descriptive and Inferential Statistics in Research 17. Hypothesis Testing 18. Non-parametric and Parametric Tests 19. Correlation, Regression and Multivariate Analysis 20. Interpretation of Statistics Part 3: Understanding and Publishing Research 21. Evidence-based Physiotherapy 22. Research Proposal 23. Understanding a Research Article 24. Methodology in Research Article 25. Critical Appraisal Tools 26. Critical Appraisal of Clinical Trials 27. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 28. Journal Club Question Bank Further Reading Glossary Appendix Index