Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Patient-reported outcomes in clinical health research
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3410-24-00-00	There are 11 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 01/10/2024

Date and time	29.10.2024, at: 09:00 - 12.11.2024, at: 15:30
Regular seats	18
Course fee	3,240.00 kr.
Lecturers	Selina Kikkenborg Berg
ECTS credits	2.60

Contact person	Line Ryberg Rasmussen E-mail address: line.ryberg.rasmussen@regionh.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Select and distribute relevant patient-reported outcome measures when designing and conducting clinical trials or observational studies. 2. Evaluate the quality of patient-reported outcome measures, including validity and reliability. 3. Understand how to increase response rates and handle non-response. 4. Analyze and report patient-reported outcomes. 5. Understand how patient-reported outcomes can be combined with register data. Content The course is an introduction to the use of patient-reported outcomes in clinical health research. The focus of the course is primarily on questionnaires. The course will address designing, conducting and reporting trials or observational studies where patient-reported outcome measures are included as primary or secondary outcomes. Considerations about choosing relevant instruments and evaluating the quality of instruments will be covered. Furthermore, specific generic instruments will be presented in more detail. The statistical preparation and reporting will also be covered, including handling of non-responders. Finally, patient-reported outcomes used as proxy or predictors of other health outcomes will be introduced. Participants PhD-students preferably newly enrolled. No special qualifications required, but it is an advantage if the student has knowledge about statistics. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: - All graduate programmes Language English if non-Danish participants attend. Otherwise Danish. Form Lectures, group work, discussions. It will be possible to work with your own project during the course. To pass the course a 3-page paper concerning own project must be submitted by 26 November 2024. Course director Selina Kikkenborg Berg Senior researcher RN, MSN, PhD, FESC, FAHA. Rigshospitalet, The Heart Centre, section 2151 Blegdamsvej 9 2100 Copenhagen Denmark +45 35459526 Selina@rh.dk Teachers Selina Kikkenborg Berg, professor, University of Copenhagen Philip Moons, professor, KU Leuven, Belgium Jakob Bjørner, professor, University of Copenhagen Jane Lindschou, senior clinical research consultant, Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, Rigshospitalet Ola Ekholm, senior advisor, University of Southern Denmark Lau Caspar Thygesen, professor, University of Southern Denmark Anne Vinggaard Christensen, post doc, Rigshospitalet Mitti Blakø, post doc, Rigshospitalet Pernille Palm, post doc, Rigshospitalet Dates 29 October, 5 and 12 November 2024 - 9-15:30 all days Course location Panum, Copenhagen. Registration Please register before 1st of October 2024 Expected frequency Annual in November. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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