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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Glob Soc Welf. 2018 Oct 2;6(3):177–188. doi: 10.1007/s40609-018-0126-8

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
  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