Cohort design - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

A friend of yours is pregnant and particularly afraid of her child dying from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) after he is born. What factor can you tell your friend puts her child at greater risk from dying from SIDS so she can make sure she avoids it? correct answers cigarette smoke Charmaine is interested in going to graduate school to gain expertise in the ways in which people experience physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes over the course of their lives. The type of prog...

Epidemiology and Biostat Final Exam - Questions and Answers Which of the following health indicators is most commonly used to compare the health of a different countries? neonatal mortality rate overall mortality rate infant mortality rate perinatal mortality rate True/False The terminology incidence rate and incidence proportion can be used interchangeably false Health indicators include which of the following? (Select all that apply) measures of fertility measures of disease prevalence measu...

Animal Diversity, 8e (Hickman) Chapter 1 Science of Zoology and Evolution of Animal Diversity 1) A characteristic of science is that A) it is not explained by natural laws. B) its hypotheses are testable. C) its conclusions are final. D) it is not falsifiable. E) it seeks to define the vitalistic forces of life. Answer: B Section: 01.01 Topic: Principles of Science Learning Objective: 01.01 Explain that science consists in testing, possibly rejecting, and improving our simplest and be...

The nurse practitioner is reviewing a recent study that utilizes analytic epidemiology by means of a cohort study design. The cohort study design informs the practitioner about which of the following - ANSOutcomes that develop from an exposure A group of providers have implemented population-based intervention and are now assessing the efficacy of the intervention. Which of the following would be an example of a population based outcome? - ANSDecreased mortality rate compared to previous ye...

Focus of scientific studies correct answers 1. exploratory data collection and analysis (1st step in research) 2. hypothesis testing causal relationship correct answers -one variable directly or indirectly influences another -to claim scientists try to show: association precedence, parsimony, plausibility association correct answers exists between two variables if a particular value for one variable is more likely to occur with certain values of the other variable = more smoking means mo...

ANCC Nonclinical Questions And Correct Answers T-test - ANSWER : Compares one variable (perhaps BP) between two groups P-value - ANSWER : Represents the probability of error involved in accepting the observed results as a valid representative of the population. Think of P-value as statistical significance of a hypothesis. Standard deviation - ANSWER : The measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of data from the average. Confidence interval - ANSWER : Measures the reliabi...

Bias in study design Systematic , nonrandom variation in study methodology and/or data collection process that results in an incorrect estimate of association between exposure and outcome affecting the true value of the result Ex of bias: - Selection bias: systematic selection of subjects that leads to an imbalance or an advantage in favor of one cohort over the other, leading to an error in the selection, or sampling of individuals for a clinical study -observational or information bias...

EPIB Exam 2 Practice Questions with Complete Solutions Which of the following studies does NOT use individuals as the unit of analysis? - Correct Answer ecological study NAME THAT STUDY: A community assesses a random sample of its residents by telephone questionnaire. Participants are asked to report their height, weight and the presence of any current health conditions (e.g., hypertension, diabetes). Findings indicate that obesity is strongly associated with diagnosed diabetes. - Correct An...

Currently, what is the proportion of elderly over the age of 65 in the United States? correct answers 12.4% In modern American culture, the birth of a child to a 13 year-old girl would be considered correct answers off-time. Currently, what is the average life expectancy for women in the United States? correct answers 80 years old What was the percentage of people over 65 in the overall US population in 1900? correct answers 4.1% A cross-sectional study is susceptible to what kind of...

Sociology - Answer-the scientific study of the social lives of individuals, groups, and societies, and the interactions between these The mission of sociology is to teach us how to understand the behaviors, beliefs, and feelings of those around us and to answer key questions about the human condition sociological imagination - Answer-the capacity to shift from the perspective of the personal experience to the grander, societal scale, that has caused of influenced that personal experience. ...