This is the study of the distribution and determinants of diseases and injuries in human populations.
What is Epidemiology?
100
A collection of research articles published in a particular discipline makes up this.
What is a journal?
100
Cohort studies are classified under this type of research.
What is longitudinal research?
100
Studies with outcomes that have only two options are known as this type.
What are dichotomous outcome studies?
100
This is the analysis you would use should you be interested in determining how many people you have in each group in a given variable.
What is Frequency?
200
These are the two primary concerns of epidemiological research.
What are prevention and control?
200
Reviewers in the peer-review process are known as this, not because of their inability to see, but because they do not know the identity of the author(s) of the paper they are reviewing.
What is blind?
200
These are two examples of cohorts.
What is ........ varied..............?
200
These are studies concerned with the number of new cases over time.
What are incidence studies?
200
Controls in incidence case-control studies can be chosen from either of these two places.
What is the general population and patients with other diseases?
300
This selection method gives each member of a target population an equal opportunity of being included in the study sample.
What is random selection?
300
These individuals act as the control in longitudinal research.
Who are the participants? (themselves)
300
Cohort groups may be compared to other cohorts or this other large group of people.
What is the general population?
300
One of two reasons for conducting either incidence or prevalence studies.
What is
-to describe the occurrence of disease?
-estimate the effect of a particular exposure on disease?
300
This is one particular way of ascertaining exposure in case-control studies.
What is questionnaire, historical records, biological markers?
400
A particular aspect, innate or acquired, which is shared by a group of people, and which may or may not influence the development of a disease is known by this term.
What is risk factor?
400
A disadvantage of longitudinal research is that this may occur, especially due to repeated testing.
What is confounding?
400
Not requiring a strict random assigmnent of subjects is known as an advantage to cohort studies, mainly because it would be _____________ otherwise.
What is unethical/improbable?
400
This refers to the amount of time that a person contributed to the research study.
What is person-time?
400
SPSS emits results from analyses in output files that are opened in a separate window and can then be exported as a number of file types, including these two.
What is .doc, .pdf, .rtf, etc...?
500
A group of people who could be counted as cases if they had the disease being studied are known as this.
What is the population of risk?
500
Longitudinal research study this type of occurring changes, rather than experimentally induced changes.
What are naturally occurring changes?
500
This is difficult to determine in cohort studies.
What is causality?
500
This is one of the two requirements controls would satisfy if one was conducting an incidence case-control study.
What is
-Exposure to risk factors should be representative of that in the population “at risk”
-Exposures of controls should be measurable with similar accuracy to those of the cases
500
Options for data type when inputting into SPSS is limited to these three types of variables.