ECTS: 2.1
Course leader: Annette De Thurah
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Graduate program: ClinFO
Course fee: 2,520.00 DKK
Status: Course is open for application
Semester: Spring 2025
Application deadline: 24/02/2025
Cancellation deadline: 10/03/2025
Course type: Classroom teaching
Start date: 24/03/2025
Administrator: Lena Melchior
The course C316/03 Patient reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical research is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2025.
Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).
Requirements for participation: Basic statistics is recommended
Aim: PRO data has the potential to measure what matters to patients in their daily life. Thus, the overall aim of this course is to ensure high quality research based on PRO data, and to introduce the PhD students to the methodology of using PRO in clinical research
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this course the students will
- be able to select PRO instruments, and evaluate it’s quality
- be able to design, analyse, report and interpret PROs in clinical research
Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 40 hours
Content: The course is an introduction to the use of PRO in clinical research with a special emphasis on clinical trials. Thus, the focus is mainly on the application of PRO in research rather than on design and psychometric evaluation of questionnaires. The attenders will be presented for the use of international PRO guidelines for selecting, analyzing and reporting PRO data. As an example, the course will cover the following areas; selection of PRO measures, evaluation of PRO measures, writing PRO protocols, how to handle missing data, analyzing PRO etc.
Instructors: Professor Melanie Calvert, Birmingham, UK, research fellow Olalekan Aiyegbusi, Birmingham, UK, MD, PhD associate professor Lene Kongsgaard Nielsen, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Gødstrup Hospital, RN, PhD Liv Marit Valen Schougaard, AmbuFlex, Central Denmark Region, Prof Annette de Thurah, Aarhus University, Birgit Engelst Grove, AmbuFlex, Central Denmark Region, prof Henrik Støvring, Steno Diabetes, Aarhus University Hospital.
Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus.
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
- PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
- PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses
Course dates:
- 24 March 2025 09:15 - 15:30
- 25 March 2025 09:15 - 16:00
- 26 March 2025 09:15 - 15:30