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Course syllabus - Evidence-based Practice
Scope
7.5 credits
Course code
SAA090
Valid from
Autumn semester 2021
Education level
Second cycle
Progressive Specialisation
A1N (Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements).
Main area(s)
Social Work, Work Life Studies, Science of Public Health, Physiotherapy, Caring Science with Specialization in Nursing
School
School of Health, Care and Social Welfare
Ratified
2021-01-25
Literature lists
Course literature is preliminary up to 8 weeks before course start. Course literature can be valid over several semesters.
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Books
Systematic reviews to answer health care questions
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2014] - x, 230 pages
ISBN: 9781451187717 LIBRIS-ID: 16507223
Articles
Social work practices for young people with complex needs: an integrative review.
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 35, 207-219, 2018
URL: Link
The dynamic sustainability framework: addressing the paradox of sustainment amid ongoing change
Implementation Science, 8(1), 117, 2013
The importance of cognitive errors in diagnosis and strategies to minimize them
Academic medicine, 78(8), 775-780, 2003
Systematic reviews of qualitative research
Clinical effectiveness in Nursing, 2001, 5:111-119,
Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map?
The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 26(1), 1324, 2006
URL: Link
Diffusion theory and knowledge dissemination, utilization, and integration in public health
Annual review of public health, 30, 151-174, 2009
The useful evidence typology for making clinical research more useful: consideration on process, context, implementation strategies and outcomes
BMJ Medical Research Methodology. 20:133, 2020
URL: Link
Systematic reviews
Palliative Medicine, 1999, 13: 75-80,
Easy Ride or Born to be Wild? The travelling of evidence-based social work to Sweden
European Journal of Social Work, 2021
URL: Link
The organizational context of research-minded practitioners: challenges and opportunities
Research on Social Work Practice, 25(4), 446 459, 2015
What counts as evidence in evidence-based practice?
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 47 (1), 81-90, 2004
The Value Equation: Three complementary propositions for reconciling adaptation and fidelity in evidence-based practice implementation
BMC Health Service Research, 19, 868, 2019
URL: Link
The dynamic integrated evaluation model (DIEM): achieving sustainability in organizational intervention through a participatory evaluation approach
Stress and Health, 32(4), pp. 285-293, 2016
URL: Link
Evidence-based practice in nursing for teaching-learning: but is it really nursing?
Nursing Science Quarterly, 32(1), 25-28, 2019
Reference Literature
Building organizational supports for research-minded practitioners
Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 9(1-2), 174-211, 2012
Managing clinical knowledge for healthcare improvement
In J. Bemmel, & A. T. McCray (Eds.), Yearbook of medical informatics (pp. 65-70), 2000
Walking the tightrope - perspectives on local politicians' role in implementing a national social care policy on evidence-based practice
International journal of mental health systems 10, 75, 2016
URL: Link
Aligning perspectives? Comparison of top and middle-level managers views on how organization influence implementation of evidence-based practice
British Journal of Social Work, 0, 1-20, 2019
Kejsarens nya kläder - implementering av evidensbaserad praktik i socialt arbete
Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift 1, 26-45, 2012
Användbar evidens : om följsamhet och anpassningar
Första utgåvan : Stockholm : Natur & Kultur, [2017] - 325 sidor
ISBN: 978-91-27-81818-7 LIBRIS-ID: 19957826
Evidensbaserad praktik inom socialtjänsten : en introduktion för praktiker, chefer, politiker och studenter
Stockholm : SKL Kommentus, 2009 - 76 s.
ISBN: 978-91-7345-208-3 LIBRIS-ID: 11454822
Novel programs, international adoptions, or contextual adaptions? Meta-analytic results from German and Swedish intervention research
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 45(6), 784-796, 2016
URL: Link
Socialt arbete som evidensbaserad praktik
1. uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2013 - 191 s.
ISBN: 9789144083896 LIBRIS-ID: 13989718
Exploring patients' experiences of the whiplash injury-recovery process : a meta-synthesis
DOVE MEDICAL PRESS LTD, 2018
URL: Link
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Colliding ideals - An interview study of how intervention researchers address adherence and adaptations in replication studies
BMC Medical research methodology. 18:36, 2018
URL: Link
Objectives
The objective of the course is for students to attain further enhanced knowledge about the significance of evidence in the area of health and welfare. Another course objective is to procure knowledge about models for knowledge transfer and as a basis for the development of an evidence-based practice in the area of health and welfare
Learning outcomes
After having completed the course, the student is expected to be able to:
1. describe and evaluate the significance of evidence in relation to practice
2. analyze the implications of different ways of searching for literature, for scientific quality
3. problematize and evaluate different ways in which evidence as a concept is viewed in different disciplines
4. describe and evaluate different models of knowledge transfer to practices in the area of health and welfare.
Course content
Different perspectives on evidence as a concept
Perspectives on searching for evidence - strategies for research and practice
Models for knowledge transfer as a basis for evidence in health and welfare
Specific requirements
A completed bachelor's degree from an institution of higher education of three years or more, equivalent to 180 credits in one of the following subject areas: Social Work Public Health Science, Caring Science with Specialisation in Nursing, Nursing Science, Medical Science, Physiotherapy, Sociology, Psychology, or the equivalent. In addition, Swedish B/Swedish 3 and English B/English 6 are required. For courses given entirely in English exemption is made from the requirement in Swedish B/Swedish 3.
Examination
SEM1 Seminars 2.5 credit points, learning objectives 1 and 3, Marks Fail (U) or Pass (G).
INL1 Assignment 5 credit points, learning objectives 1, 2 and 4, Marks Fail (U), Pass (G) or Pass with distinction (VG).
For the grade Pass with distinction (VG) on the course as a whole, the student must receive a Pass with distinction (VG) for INL1 and Pass for SEM1.
A student who has a certificate from MDU regarding a disability has the opportunity to submit a request for supportive measures during written examinations or other forms of examination, in accordance with the Rules and Regulations for Examinations at First-cycle and Second-cycle Level at Mälardalen University (2020/1655). It is the examiner who takes decisions on any supportive measures, based on what kind of certificate is issued, and in that case which measures are to be applied.
Suspicions of attempting to deceive in examinations (cheating) are reported to the Vice-Chancellor, in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance, and are examined by the University’s Disciplinary Board. If the Disciplinary Board considers the student to be guilty of a disciplinary offence, the Board will take a decision on disciplinary action, which will be a warning or suspension.
Grade
Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail