Table 1:
Research needs assessment tool
| Research Needs Assessment | Tick | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basic research methods | |
| a. Quantitative methods | ||
| b. Qualitative methods | ||
| c. Mixed methods | ||
| 2 | Levels within these methodologies | |
| a. Introductory and Intermediate quantitative methods | ||
| b. Advanced quantitative methods | ||
| c. Introductory and Intermediate qualitative methods | ||
| d. Advanced qualitative methods | ||
| e. Advanced mixed methods | ||
| 3 | Ethical, human rights based and legal considerations of research | |
| 4 | Mental Health needs | |
| 5 | Critically reviewing research material | |
| a. what should the focus be on in reading MH papers? | ||
| b. parameters to evaluate research process and results? | ||
| 6 | Interdisciplinary/ multidisciplinary research in clinical health psychology | |
| a. how to make it possible | ||
| b. what elements need deliberation | ||
| c. ways of formulating and assessing various factors under study | ||
| d. research assessment | ||
| 7 | How to publish research | |
| 8 | How to write grant proposals | |
| a. identifying the appropriate grant | ||
| b. collective action | ||
| c. log framework development | ||
| d. thinking and presenting own expertise | ||
| 9 | New approaches | |
| a. Randomized controlled trials | ||
| b. Advanced introduction to RCTs | ||
| 10 | Digital Technologies and MH | |
| a. how to use literature search and digital software | ||
| b. use of videos, audios in research and teaching | ||
| c. special training for statistical software like MATLAB, SPSS, NVIVO | ||
| 11 | Basic introduction to applications and methods | |
| a. Health and Mental health challenges within nursing |
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| b. Health and Mental Health challenges within Community social work | ||
| c. H and MH challenges in Public Health | ||
| d. Psychiatry and its interface with familial and social institutions -key issues | ||
| 12 | Thematic research areas needing focus on | |
| a. HIV : Stigma, prevention, and intervention research | ||
| b. Disaster mental health: Natural disasters and social violence | ||
| c. Maternal health | ||
| d. Domestic and sexual violence | ||
| e. Substance abuse: prevention and interventions | ||
| f. Psychotherapy process and outcome research | ||
| 13 | Research Supervision | |
| a. supervision of students | ||
| b. peer supervision | ||
| c. ethics, principles and basic guidelines | ||