Pubh 6035 final - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1. Question: What were the total person-months at risk during the study? 2. Question: A cohort study of coffee drinking and anxiety was conducted at a university campus. There were a total of 30,000 freshmen who participated. 10,000 were coffee drinkers and 20,000 were not. Of the coffee drinkers, 500 developed anxiety during the 4-year follow-up period. Of the non-coffee drinkers, 200 developed anxiety during the same time period. Assume that no one in the population died or was lost during th...

1. Question: What were the total person-months at risk during the study? 2. Question: A cohort study of coffee drinking and anxiety was conducted at a university campus. There were a total of 30,000 freshmen who participated. 10,000 were coffee drinkers and 20,000 were not. Of the coffee drinkers, 500 developed anxiety during the 4-year follow-up period. Of the non-coffee drinkers, 200 developed anxiety during the same time period. Assume that no one in the population died or was lost during th...

Question: If the incidence rate of a very serious disease is 25/100,000 person-years and the prevalence of this disease in the population is 75/100,000, what is the average survival time of individuals who contract this disease? Question: A report of a clinical trial of a new drug versus a placebo … that the new drug gave a higher proportion of successes than did the placebo (70% versus 40%). The report … with the statement that the p value … with this finding was equal to 0.05. This mean...

1. Question: What were the total person-months at risk during the study? 2. Question: A cohort study of coffee drinking and anxiety was conducted at a university campus. There were a total of 30,000 freshmen who participated. 10,000 were coffee drinkers and 20,000 were not. Of the coffee drinkers, 500 developed anxiety during the 4-year follow-up period. Of the non-coffee drinkers, 200 developed anxiety during the same time period. Assume that no one in the population died or was lost during th...

1. Question: If the incidence rate of a very serious disease is 25/100,000 person-years and the prevalence of this disease in the population is 75/100,000, what is the average survival time of individuals who contract this disease? 2. Question: A report of a clinical trial of a new drug versus a placebo noted that the new drug gave a higher proportion of successes than did the placebo (70% versus 40%). The report ended with the statement that the p value associated with this finding was equal t...

1. Identify the type of study design used in the article. Then, answer the appropriatefollowingquestionbasedonthatstudydesign(i.e.,youshouldonlyansweroneofthefollowingquestions):Ifthiswasacohortstudy,discussthecompletenessoffollow-upandhowthataffectedtheresults.Ifthiswasacase-controlstudy,discussthecompletenessofcaseascertainmentandhowthataffectedtheresults.Ifthiswasacross-sectionalstudy,discussthecompletenessofthedatacollection(e.g.,missingdata,excludedsurveys)andhow that affected the results. ...

1. Question: If the incidence rate of a very serious disease is 25/100,000 person-years and the prevalence of this disease in the population is 75/100,000, what is the average survival time of individuals who contract this disease? 2. Question: A report of a clinical trial of a new drug versus a placebo noted that the new drug gave a higher proportion of successes than did the placebo (70% versus 40%). The report ended with the statement that the p value associated with this finding was equal t...

Question: What were the total person-months at risk during the study? Question: A cohort study of coffee drinking and anxiety was conducted at a university campus. There were a total of 30,000 freshmen who participated. 10,000 were coffee drinkers and 20,000 were not. Of the coffee drinkers, 500 developed anxiety during the 4-year follow-up period. Of the non-coffee drinkers, 200 developed anxiety during the same time period. Assume that no one in the population died or was lost during the foll...