Module GW4300-KP05

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, compulsory, Research in the health and care sciences
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, compulsory, Research in the health and care sciences

Classes and lectures:

• Piloting Complex Interventions (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Development of Complex Interventions (seminar, 1 SWS)

Workload:

• 30 hours in-classroom work
• 120 hours private studies and exercises

Contents of teaching:

• In this course, starting from the MRC framework for the development and evaluation of complex interventions, the first phases for the development and piloting of (especially in the field of non-pharmacological interventions) widely used complex interventions are addressed. Students will receive basic information in the lecture, which will be reinforced with examples in the exercise. The exercises are designed to analyze the individual elements of the development or piloting of complex interventions in more detail and to develop and theoretically substantiate them on the basis of relevant publications as well as their own questions. The content focuses on the theoretical foundations, principles and models of the development, feasibility testing and evaluation of complex interventions. Methodological challenges, e.g. in modeling relevant outcome parameters as well as reporting, will also be addressed.

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge and Understanding Knowledge Enhancement: Students will know and understand the requirements for developing and piloting complex interventions in the health professions and medicine. Knowledge enhancement: Students know models for the development of complex interventions and their requirements as well as approaches for feasibility testing and piloting and their delimitation. Knowledge enhancement: The students know specific research methods that are used in this context and can reflect on them on the basis of the knowledge already acquired about simple interventions. This applies in particular to the interaction of different research methods (mixed methods).
• Use, application and generation of knowledge Use and transfer: Students are able to classify already known interventions with regard to their degree of complexity and the resulting requirements for development and piloting and to assess the quality of the available scientific evidence or the appropriateness of the methods used. Utilization and Transfer: Students will be able to identify complex interventions and outline the phases of development and piloting. Scientific Innovation: Students will be able to create research plans for the development and piloting of complex interventions using appropriate methods.
• Communication and cooperation Students are able to argue the importance of the special focus of complex interventions and confidently justify the resulting requirements for development and piloting. They can adequately describe and justify the planned methodological procedure for these steps in writing and orally.
• Scientific self-understanding and professionalism: Students will be able to grasp the importance of complex interventions for health care practice in the health professions and medicine, and will understand the importance of in-depth theory-based development, taking into account relevant process and contextual factors.

Grading through:

• Oral presentation

Is requisite for:

• Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions 2 (GW4500-KP05)

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. phil. Anne Rahn

Teacher:

• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology - Section for Research and Teaching in Nursing
• Prof. Dr. phil. Anne Rahn

Literature:

• Skivington K, Matthews L, Simpson S A, Craig P, Baird J, Blazeby J M et al. (2021) : A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions: update of Medical Research Council guidance BMJ 374 :n2061 doi:10.1136/bmj.n2061
• Moore G, Audrey S, Barker M, Bond L, Bonell C, Hardeman W et al. : Process evaluation of complex interventions: UK Medical Research Council guidance. London: Medical Research Council, 2016 /li>
• Richards D & Rahm Hallberg I. (Hg.) : Complex interventions in health: an overview of research methods. London & New York: Routledge, 2015

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

16.09.2025