Seminar: Creating Evidence in Digital and Mobile Health (MSc, PhD)
| Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bernard |
| Teaching Language | English |
| Level | MSc, PhD (DSI) |
| Academic Semester | Spring 2021 |
| Time and Location | Block Course: Thursday 22.04.2021, 09:00-17:00 Uhr Friday 23.04.2021 09:00-16:00 Uhr |
| Course Material | Slides, Exercises |
| Link to VV | MSc, DSI |
| Link to OLAT | MSc |
| AP (ECTS) | 3 (MSC), 1(DSI) |
| Lecturers | Prof. Jürgen Bernard Prof. Viktor von Wyl |
| Office Hours | Prof. Jürgen Bernard: email for appointments, BIN 5.E.15 |
Course Goals
- After completion of this course, participants should have an awareness for the critical points in study design and conduct, and for the data analysis workflow.
- Given this knowledge, students will be able to critically appraise protocols and publications
- Implicit Goal: We all will learn how to interact across disciplines, find a common language, appreciate other disciplines’ concepts and frameworks, and thus become better prepared for working and living in a highly digitalized and specialized world.
Course Outline
- What is digital and mobile health (mHealth)?
- How do epidemiologists and data scientists think?
- Experimental methods and concepts for evaluating mHealth
- Data scientists’ approaches to analyzing (non-experimental) data
- Overview over ethical, legal and regulatory frameworks for mHealth
- User Engagement: What are the needs and wishes of end users?
- Data, Tasks, Users: Strategies to plan and execute mHealth evaluations
Lectures and practical exercises (+data analysis task for Master students)