OBJECTIVES

Upon completing the course, participants are expected to have a good understanding of:

• Basic knowledge about diabetes, epidemiology, statistics and diabetes education
• Appropriate methods for conducting epidemiological/clinical research in diabetes
• Application of appropriate statistical techniques for the analysis of biomedical data
• Limitations of various research and statistical methods
• Interpretation of study results and their presentation
• Strategy to implementing effective diabetes education
• Health economics methods applicable to diabetes