DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2013.v01i04.011

Pages: 265-268

Computer aided health science research refers to the application of computers in conducting health science research. This could be mere use MS office such as MS Word for preparing a report or MS Excel for quantitative data analysis to higher applications such SAS, SPSS etc. Gone are the days when research used to happen manually with the use of human intellect only. There has been a paradigm shift in research approach and most of the research activities happening during these days are a combination of manual and computer aided approach. A number of softwares are available for this purpose both for bio-clinical research and public health research. These softwares are useful both in qualitative and quantitative research. Computer aided health research helps in many different ways such as data entry, analysis, and interpretation. Computer aided health research should not be confused with computer aided health care as the latter refers to computer assisted health care delivery. There are many advantages of the softwares used in health science research but the disadvantages cannot be neglected. In this paper an attempt has been made to give an introductory idea about computer aided health science research in the form several of softwares used in HSR.