Study on health-related issues using a selected tradition in interpretative methods. Examples include biochemical and biophysical measure. Students develop beginning skills with one physiologic measure. Students learn to evaluate, develop, modify, translate, and test instruments for use in research. Includes causal inferencing and theory testing through causal modeling with path analysis and structural equations modeling.
Students learn to evaluate theory models and to apply the content by developing and testing models.
Theory development emphasized. Students demonstrate application of decision-making process involved in development of clinical outcome study. Development of practical analysis skills on real data sets. Fulfills the requirements of the non-thesis option for Master's students in nursing.