PUBH 8035 (PUBH8035)

PUBH 8035 Module 5 Assignment; Problem Set - Confounding and Effect Modification

AnExperimentalStudyinthePrimaryPreventionofType2DiabetesImaginethatresearchersareconductingarandomizedcontrolledtrialofahigh-fibersupplementasapreventivemeasureinpersonsatincreasedriskoftype2diabetes. Peopleenrolledin thestudyaredisease-freeatthetime theyagreetoparticipateinthetrial,buttheyallhaveafamilyhistoryoftype2diabetesandareconsideredathigh-risk(80%)todevelopthediseaseduring their lifetime. The 10,000 participants who start the trial are healthyindividuals who are randomly allocated to r...

StudyGroupMyResearchQuestion: In chapter 9, the strength and weaknesses of Case-control studies and Cohort studies werehighlighted. And one of the strengths of Case-Control studies is that it is efficient for rarediseases; in other words, conditions that are not common and epidemiologists are still trying tounravelthe nature ofthedisease(Aschengrau,2020).Ithought Covid-19shouldbepart ofsuchdiseases, but many of the epidemiologist studies that I have read in the past involves Cohortstudy,whileno...

1. A cohort study of smoking and bladder cancer was conducted in a small islandpopulation. There were a total of 1000 people on the island. Four hundred weresmokersand600werenot.Fiftyofthesmokersdevelopedbladdercancer.Tenofthenon-smokersdevelopedbladdercancer. • Constructatwobytwotableusingthedatagivenabove.Besuretolabelthecells andmargins. ...............

DiscussionTips Part of what makes a discussion a discussion and not a lecture is the back and forth, indepth, animated engagement of at least two people. If you start discussing a topic andyour peers are not engaging in it, consider what you can do to get the conversationgoing. Include something that might elicit further thoughts and different opinions amongyourpeers.Rememberthatdiscussionsupportsadiscovery-basedlearningexperiencethat facilitates a deeper understanding of content from multipl...

PUBH 8035 Module 1 Assignment; Professional Learning Journal

1. Question: Selection bias is most likely to occur in which type of study 2. Question: Interviewer/recording bias can occur in 3. Question: If a subjects ’willingness to participate is related to both their exposure status and disease status, the resulting bias is known as: 4. Question: Non-differential misclassification tends to bias study results in which direction? 5. Question: Loss to follow-up bias is an important concern in which type of epidemiologic study? 6. Question: Which of t...

1. Question: A study that compares the prevalence of high blood pressure among current Massa chusetts Turnpike toll booth collectors with the current prevalence of high blood pressure of current Turnpike office workers. What type of study is this? 2. Question: A strength of BOTH cross-sectional and an ecological studies is: 3. Question: The Health Professionals Cohort Study began in 2005 in order to evaluate a series of hypotheses about men’s health relating nutritional factors to the incide...

1. What are the potential risks and benefits to be considered when designing this study? 2. When the side effects and long-term effects of a potential preventive measure are largely unknown, is it ethical to expose participants to these risks? Why or why not? 3. Is it ethical to deny the possible prevention benefits of high-fiber supplements to persons in the placebo group? Why or why not? 4. Do the potential benefits outweigh the potential risks to the participants and to society? Why or why...

PUBH 8035 Module 3 Assignment 1; Case Study Epidemiological Measures Usingtheinformationprovidedinthecasestudy,completeSectionsB,C,andD(pp.5–10),typingyouranswersintoaseparatedocument. SectionB:CalculatingMeasuresofAssociation Over 25 studies have been conducted which have failed to show an associationbetweenMMRvaccineandautism.Belowaresomedatafromtwoofthesestudies(onecohortandonecase-control). Calculatethemeasureofassociationforeachstudyaftercompletingthe2x2tableandinterpretthemea...