NHS - Overview and Population Health Prevalence
This long-running study investigates the health and lifestyle factors of female registered nurses in the United States.
What is the Nurses' Health Study?
What does FFQ stand for?
Semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire
What is the year that the Health Professionals Follow Up Study began?
What is 1986?
Where was the Health Professionals Follow-Up study created?
What is Harvard?
The NHS is currently in this generation of study.
What is the third generation?
What did the FFQ test for?
Diet, Physical Activity, and Adiposity
This type of health professional makes up the majority of the study population.
What are dentists?
Epidemiology provides ___ level insights by translating individual-level data into big-picture health recommendations.
What is population?
The Nurses' Health Study was established this year by Dr. Frank Speizer.
What is 1976?
What was the reason for tracking the dietary intake over time, rather than tracking a single meal?
It doesn’t reflect someone’s usual eating habits, and researchers need long-term patterns to study how diet affects health.
What lifestyle factor does the HPFS primarily investigate?
What is diet/nutrition?
By identifying risk factors, HPFS builds stronger evidence for this type of relationship.
What is cause-and-effect?
The primary motivation of the Nurses' Health Study was to investigate the long-term health effects of the use of these.
What are birth control pills?
Today, the FFQ is used around the world and is considered the standard method for this type of study design, where large groups are tracked over time.
Cohort study
These steps describe the process of using data or questionnaires from the HPFS in one’s own research.
What is submitting the form listed on the study’s website and scheduling a meeting with the research team to discuss one’s proposal?
What is the main difference between the Nurses health study and the HPFS?
What is female nurses vs. male health professionals?
This is the approximate number of female nurses in the first cohort of the Nurses' Health Study.
What is over 121,000?
This type of descriptive study summarizes the experience of similar patients, often lacks a comparison group, and was used in the identification of HIV/AIDS.
Case series
These two conditions have been more thoroughly investigated thanks to HPFS data (hint: specific to men).
What are prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction?
What do epidemiologists who analyze the HPFS work to detect links between?
What is diet, lifestyle, and chronic diseases?