Module GW4500-KP05

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer 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:

• Evaluation of Complex Interventions (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Implementation of Complex Interventions (seminar, 1 SWS)

Workload:

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

Contents of teaching:

• In this course, based on the MRC framework for the development and evaluation of complex interventions, content is deepened and knowledge is expanded and applied.
• Selected examples will be studied in depth in order to take a closer look at the individual elements of the evaluation or implementation of complex interventions in the context of studies, to analyze them and to ground them theoretically.
• The content focuses on questions about the effectiveness of complex interventions and the preparation of a systematic review of a question. Challenges in quality assessment and reporting are also addressed.

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge and Understanding: Students will know and understand the requirements for evaluating complex interventions in the health professions and medicine.
• Knowledge enhancement: Students know models for different ways of evaluating complex interventions.
• Knowledge enhancement: Students know specific research methods that are used in this context and can reflect on them based on the knowledge they have already learned about simple interventions.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge, utilization and transfer: Students can classify already known interventions with regard to their degree of complexity and the resulting requirements for evaluation and implementation and assess the quality of the available scientific evidence or the appropriateness of the methods used.
• Scientific Innovation: Students will be able to develop research plans for evidence synthesis of studies of the effectiveness of complex interventions using appropriate methods.
• Utilization and Transfer: Students will be able to identify studies of effectiveness on complex interventions and summarize, analyze, and report them as part of a systematic review.
• Communication and cooperation: Students are able to argue the importance of the special focus of complex interventions and to confidently justify the resulting requirements for evaluation in the context of systematic reviews. They can adequately describe and justify the planned methodological procedure for these steps in writing and orally.
• Scientific self-conception and professionalism: Students are aware of the importance of complex interventions for the practice of health care professions and the special methodological requirements for their evaluation. They are able to apply appropriate methodological inventory in their own work in research, practice development or quality assurance (e.g. with regard to the identification of relevant contextual factors and evaluation strategies).

Grading through:

• written homework

Requires:

• Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions 1 (GW4300-KP05)

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. phil. Anne Rahn

Teacher:

• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology - Section for Research and Teaching in Nursing

Literature:

• Craig P, Dieppe P, Macintyre S, Michie S, Nazareth I, Petticrew M : Developing and evaluating complex interventions: new guidance. London: Medical Research Council, 2006 /li>
• 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