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PSU BBH 101 final exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
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PSU BBH 101 final exam Questions andAnswers (Latest Update 2024)
biomedical model - Correct Answer ✅suggests that illness
always has a biological cause
*only really focuses on pathogens and how people get sick
biobehavioral model - Correct Answer ✅recognizes
biological, psychological, and sociocultural forces in
determining an individuals health and vulnerability to disease
*a more "well rounded" view of health
hypothesis - Correct Answer ✅an idea that someone has
about something
theory - Correct Answer ✅an idea that has been proven
over and over
p-value - Correct Answer ✅tells you the probability of
obtaining your result if there really is no relationship between
the variables that you are testing (rules out likelihood of
random chance)
*p-vaules of LESS THAN 0.05 is generally accepted as a
significant finding
,PSU BBH 101 final exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2024)
prevalence - Correct Answer ✅number of current cases of
something
incidence - Correct Answer ✅number of new cases of
something
Case-study - Correct Answer ✅A description of one patient
*useful for unique cases, but not really for finding out what
causes a condition
*low explanatory capabilities
Cross-sectional study - Correct Answer ✅Taken at "one
point in time", and no follow up is given
*typically a survey
*you can see correlation, but not causation
Case control study - Correct Answer ✅A group that has the
thing you're studying for, and a group that does not have the
thing you're studying for
, PSU BBH 101 final exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2024)
*uses odds ratio to measure results
odds ratio - Correct Answer ✅tells how much more likely
people with the exposure are to have an outcome; a higher
number equals a greater risk (compared to the group without
the exposure)
cohort study - Correct Answer ✅no one in the study has
the outcome you're looking for, but some are exposed to
what you believe to be a risk
*you can examine cause/effect from this!!!
How do you make the groups you are studying as similar as
possible? - Correct Answer ✅Random assignments:
randomly assign people to the groups
Blinding: concealing what group they are a part of (can be
single, double, or triple)
Good placebo: make it look similar to the actual drug or
whatever you are testing for so that people can't obviously
tell it's fake
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