Single Case Design (SCD) in Clinical Research and Data Driven Decision Processes for Individualized Health Care

Third-cycle level | 3.0 credits (HEC) | Course code: K8F5638
HT 2025
Study period: 2025-11-03 - 2025-11-14
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in English
Application period: 2025-04-15 - 2025-08-31
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HT 2026
Study period: 2026-09-28 - 2026-10-09
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in English
Application period: 2026-04-15 - 2026-05-05
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Course description

The course outlines how single case design can be used to understand individual change processes, including treatment effects, to promote precision health and personalized treatment in clinical research and health care innovation.

Prerequisites and Selection

Prerequisite courses, or equivalent

Course in basic statistics or corresponding knowledge.

Selection

Selection, within each category of applicants (selection category), will be based on:

1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s individual study plan/research (according to written motivation).
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date).


Course director

Rikard Wicksell, Professor of Clinical Health Psychology

Contact: rikard.wicksell@ki.se


Afra Taygar, Phd student

Contact: afra.taygar@ki.se

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychology




Course syllabus

K8F5638

Department

Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Doctoral programme

**Not within a doctoral programme

Type of course

**Other course

Keywords

N=1, N of 1, single case design, precision health, personalize medicine

CONTACTRikard Wicksell

rikard.wicksell@ki.se