sleep

Usine the national guidelines for defining sleep disorders, we set out to validate this against people's self-reported sleeep disorders.

winter depression

A study on how complex web forms kan be.

Randomised controlled trial of web-based vs. teacher guided EBM-course

A web-based EBM course for final year medical students at the University of Bergen has been evaluated. Half of the students were randomised to a web-only version of our EBM-course, and the other half had the same material, only teacher-guided. This RCT was performed in collaboration with the University of Bergen. Evaluation included analysis of qualitative data gatheres from a focus group setting.

 

web security

CIP: Cookie and IP-controlled medical web research

Cookies have many functions, and this research project aims at looking at different ways of using cookies for research purposes.Practical, ethical and technical aspects will be addressed.

STORED: Secure Transport Of REsearch Data

One major concern has been secure transport of research data, and the assumption that any data stored online may be hacked or sabotaged. This project aims at developing a secure method of web-based handling of e-survey data. Emphasis is laid on web to e-mail, post-mail handling and storing offline. Security issues like log reporting, fault detection and hacker security will be addressed.

Author: Atle Klovning
First published: 18 March, 2001
Last editorial revision: 09 May, 2001
Last technical revision: 19 March, 2001

Sources: The CMWR Urinary incontinence survey 2001. The CMWR Sleep survey 2001. The CMWR Winter depression survey 2001.
Funded by: Centre for Medical Web Research.