Initiated in 2009, the annual Methods Symposium is a signature program of the UAB Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education. The overarching goal of the Methods Symposium is to ...

Across much of modern health research, children are measured—but not always heard. For much of the past half-century, health ...

Cynthia Ye, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Alan T. N. Tita, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Mary Heersink Institute for Global Health (MHIGH) and ...

RCTs are considered the best way to determine whether a treatment is effective, and the reason is simple: researchers can hold all other variables constant across groups and study what happens when ...

Applied psychologists and marketers in particular conduct research to choose one action over another. Through their research, market researchers want to answer questions such as: What price should we ...

In the field of social science, particularly within psychology and counseling, several critical issues have emerged that undermine the scientific rigor of research and practice. One of the most ...