Unit Code: DNT750

Unit Name: Research Project

Description: This course aims to give the student an understanding of the epidemiological principles, their application and oral health trends in Fiji and globally. Definitions, epidemiological approach and uses are introduced to link biostatistics to epidemiology. The purpose of taking epidemiological measurements by understanding epidemiological triangle, risk factors, causality and various study types are covered. Epidemiology of major oral diseases is also covered. Studies that measure and describe distribution of oral diseases or oral health-related states/phenomena will explore students? ability to distinguish different data types, report data values in frequency distributions, graphical forms and various measures of central and spread of distributions. The understanding of the rules and application of probability, concept of normal distribution, and use of confidence intervals in estimating population mean are also covered. Application of biostatistics principles in dentistry will be emphasized whenever possible. Lectures and practical exercises on Epi Info data entry and analysis will furnish students to have a much better grasp on how to prepare for their final research project; a mandatory component of the undergraduate programmeme.

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Prerequisite: N/A

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Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1,2