Research Methods in Nutrition

Aim and Content

The course provides an introduction to methods for assessing dietary intake, and methods used in experimental, clinical and epidemiological nutrition research.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the students are expected to have:

Knowledge:

• capable of explaining basic elements of research ethics
• capable of describing and evaluating the most important epidemiological research methods
• capable of describing and evaluating the most important methods for dietary intake and nutritional status
• capable of giving an overview of experimental and clinical research methods in the field of nutrition
• capable of describing how dietary surveys are conducted at the population level and how the results can be used, with the focus on surveys in Norway

Skills:

• capable of conducting elementary statistical analyses of dietary intake data
• capable of measuring nutritional status using anthropometry

Competence:

• the ability to write a scientific report
• the ability to read and evaluate scientific literature independently

Course offered (semester)

Spring

Language of Instruction

Norwegian and English

Course Unit Level

Bachelor

Department

Institute of Medicine

Pre-requirements

Completion of Nutr120, Nutr150, and Nutr207

Teaching Methods

About 36 hours of lectures, a 4-hour seminar on critical reading, one-day datalab

Compulsory Requirements

None

Assessment methods

Written exam lasting four hours (70%)

Two individual assignments (30%)

Grading Scale

Grading: A-F

Course Unit Evaluation

There will be a written evaluation at the end of the course.

Contact Information

studie@med.uib.no/ +47 55 97 73 45 / 55 58 25 35