Research and Implementing Evidence into Practice | Spalding University Catalog

OT-730: Research and Implementing Evidence into Practice

4 credit hours


This course builds upon the knowledge and evidence based practice skills developed in OT 701. Students will advance their ability to apply evidence to practice by implementing scholarly activities and study for evaluating occupational therapy practice, service delivery, and/or professional issues. Developing and evaluating scholarly proposal(s), data collection instrument psychometrics, data analysis, obtaining external funding, and articulating the steps for writing a systematic review of the literature are learning outcomes in this course.