Research Equity: A Capacity Building Workshop of Research Methodology for Medical Health Professionals

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Structured key for narrative responses for assessment of capacity building workshop of research methodology for medical health professionals.

S. no.	Question	Model Answer
1	What is research?	It is an endeavour to discover new or collate old facts and so forth by the scientific study of a subject or by a course of critical investigation [10].
2	What is a health system?	A health system provides a mix of health promotive, disease preventive, diagnostic, and clinical services to all sections of the population [11].
3	What do you mean by continuous and discreet variable?	Continuous: the value given to an observation for a continuous variable can include values as small as the instrument of measurement allows.; Discrete: observations that can take a value based on a count from a set of distinct whole values [12].
4	What is noninterventional study? Mention types of noninterventional studies are there.	Noninterventional studies/observational studies allow nature to take its own course; the investigator measures but does not intervene. These can be; (a) descriptive,; (b) analytic: ecological, cross sectional, case-control cohort [13].
5	Why do we conduct focus group discussion (FGD)?	Allow people to discuss their true feelings, anxieties, and frustrations, as well as the depth of their convictions, in their own words [14].
6	What is sampling?	Sampling is a statistical method of obtaining representative data or information from a population [12].
7	What do you mean by purposeful sampling?	A strategy in which particular settings, persons, or activities are selected deliberately in order to provide information that cannot be gotten as well from other choices [15].
8	Name the various types of purposeful sampling technique?	(i) Convenience sampling,; (ii) maximum variation sampling,; (iii) snow ball sampling [15].
9	What is random/probability sampling?	Probability sampling methods are those in which every item in the universe has a known chance or probability, of being chosen for the sample [16].
10	Name the various types of probability sampling?	The various types of probability sampling methods: (a) simple or unrestricted random sampling; (b) restricted random sampling: (i) stratified sampling,; (ii) systemic sampling,; (iii) cluster sampling [16].