Tuesday, November 6, 1997
Chuck Kowalski, Instructor
Clinical
Pain: Measurement, Design and Analysis
from the Fall 1997 series
Continuing Training to Facilitate
Quantitative Research
This eight-hour workshop covers the measurement of
pain and pain relief, the design of studies to assess the
efficacy of treatments for pain management, and the
analysis of data arising during the course of such
investigations.
Pain is recognized as a multidimensional phenomenon
(not as a single sensation varying only in intensity),
including, but not limited to, sensory,
affective-motivational, and cognitive-evaluative
dimensions. Having described the measurement of the
several components comprising the overall pain
experience, we turn to the measurement of pain relief and
the comparison of treatments designed to provide this
relief.
The focus is on clinical pain in human adult subjects;
only very limited mention will be made of studies based
on animal models, experimentally induced pain in normal
subjects, and pain in young children.
The workshop is designed for any scholar engaged in
quantitative research involving patients in pain, but may
be especially appropriate for faculty, staff, students
and clinicians from Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Public
Health, Pharmacology, Biology, Psychology, and others.
Instructors:
Chuck Kowalski is Faculty Associate at CSCAR and
Professor in the School of Dentistry at The
University of Michigan. He has extensive statistical
consulting experience in biomedical contexts,
including work with pharmaceutical companies, the
Nijmegen Growth Study, the Lancaster Cleft Palate
Clinic, the Veterans Administration Medical Center,
the National Football League, the Department of
Antiquities (Cairo), and (especially longitudinal)
data analysis, and has recently worked on pain
measurement, categorical data analysis, and
bioequivalence studies. Currently Chair of U-M's
Institutional Review Board II/Health, he also is
interested in research ethics, especially with
respect to study design and risk/benefit analysis.
Jens C. Türp is Visiting Assistant Professor from
Freiburg, Germany. He has been in the Department of
Biologic and Materials Sciences in the School of
Dentistry at The University of Michigan since 1994.
His research and clinical activities within the
department's Facial Pain Clinic focus on patients
suffering from orofacial pain.
Audience:
Any researcher studying pain in adult human
subjects.
Prerequisite:
Statistical knowledge at least at the level of
CSCAR's workshop Statistics: A Review (offered
Oct. 28, 1997). Must have basic knowledge of
measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio
scales; simple experimental designs (including
parallel groups and crossover designs); elementary
hypothesis testing (chi-square tests, t-tests, ANOVA,
correlation and regression).
Provisions:
Enrollees will receive lecture notes, and a
bibliography. Refreshments will be served at check-in
and at an afternoon break.
Date:
Tuesday, November 6, 1997.
Time:
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location:
Amphitheater, 4th Floor, Rackham Building, The
University of Michigan.
Fee:
$125 for University affiliated faculty, staff and
students; $275 for others. Fees can be paid by check
or billed to a University of Michigan Account.
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