Research Methods in Psychosocial Oncology

Two-Day Workshop
Sunday, 21 June 2009 - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 22 June 2009 - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Christoffer Johansen MD, PhD, DMSc and Corinna Bergelt PhD

Only in English / Ausschließlich auf Englisch


Target Audience:

Medical doctors, psychologists, nurses, other health professionals and students who want to discuss how to conduct research focused on psychosocial issues in cancer patients.


Workshop Objectives:

The workshop shall enable participants to:

  1. Establish a research project in the area of psychosocial oncology
  2. Identify the necessary measures of exposure and outcome in such a study
  3. Know how to identify the relevant psychometrics used in such a study
  4. Have some insight into the analysis of psychosocial data sets
  5. Be aware of pitfalls in psychosocial cancer research

Workshop Description:

The interactive 2-day workshop consists of lectures, group work and discussions of current studies or research ideas of the workshop participants.

The workshop presenters will give short methodological impulse lectures, e.g., on study designs, principles for conducting survivorship cohort studies, randomized clinical trials using psychosocial and behavioural intervention among cancer patients, bias and confounding in this particular area of research, psychometric measurements and problems with such scales etc. Additionally we will discuss the interaction of research and clinical work and possibilities of the application of research findings into clinical routine work.

The main part of the workshop is dedicated to the discussion of the research projects or ideas of the participants. Each participant will be encouraged to give a short presentation (3-5 slides) on an own planned or ongoing study.

Presentations will be conducted with humour and in an interactive fashion drawing on 20 years of experience in research. Both presenters have long lasting publication records in psychosocial cancer research and have learned about pitfalls in psychooncological research from their own experience.

Please note that the workshop focuses solely on quantitative research methods.