MASYK4400 Quality of Life Course description

The course deals with main areas of quality of life research relating to children, young people and adults. This forms the basis for using quality of life instruments or qualitative methods of assessing and documenting patients¿ problem areas, in cooperation with patients and when evaluating the effect of implemented measures. The topics included in the course are theoretical models that form the basis for the quality of life concept, contextual and cultural frameworks, the quality of life concept at group and individual levels, and different methodological approaches to evaluating quality of life, both in clinical training and in research.

Admission to the programme or to the individual course.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student

• has advanced knowledge of theoretical models that form the basis for the quality of life concept
• has insight into the meaning of contextual and cultural frameworks
• understands the use of the quality of life concept at the group and individual level
• understands different methodological approaches to examining quality of life, both in clinical training and research
• understands the importance of user participation both in clinical practice and in research

Skills

The student is capable of

• using different questionnaires to map quality of life
• analysing and interpreting quality of life measurements
• assessing quality of life in different groups of patients

Competence

The student is capable of

• disseminating an extensive independent work on issues relating to quality of life from clinical practice
• communicating about nursing issues relating to this topic with both specialists and the general public

Lectures, group work, role play, exercises and self-study.

The following must have been approved in order for a student to be permitted to take the exam:

Assignment: Quality of life.

• Written assignment in groups of 3-4 students.
• Scope: 1,500 words (+/- 10%)
• Oral presentation of the assignment to fellow students and lecturer(s).
• Oral feedback from fellow students.
• Oral feedback from lecturer(s).

Documentation of literature selected by the student: 350 pages

Individual written home exam over 3 days.

Scope: 2,500 words (+/- 10%).

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Pass-Fail

All exam papers are assessed by two examiners. An external examiner will grade 20% of the exam papers. The external examiner¿s assessment shall benefit all students.