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Epidemiology Practice Questions Assignment
Students may pick any epidemiological article to practice on the following questions
1. Research objective and study rationale
a. What is the primary research objective of this study?
b. What is the rationale for this objective (i.e., the reason(s) that this objective is important to achieve)?
c. In terms of public health importance and contribution to knowledge, how strong is the rationale for this study and how well is it presented by the authors (e.g., conceptual framework, supporting evidence, logic)? Epidemiology Practice Questions Assignment Help
d. How well grounded is the rationale in the published literature (biological, epidemiological)?
2. Key variables, measures, and data collection modes
a. What are the key variables and what are their roles (e.g., primary outcome [“disease”] or dependent variables, “exposure” or study factors, major potential confounders and other covariables)?
b. How are these variables defined and measured?
c. What are the major modes by which data are being collected? (e.g., self-administered questionnaire, interviewer-administered questionnaire, medical record review, biological specimens, etc.) Epidemiology Practice Questions Assignment Help
d. How suited are these variables, their definitions, their measurement methods, and the data collection modes for the objectives and rationale of this study? Would other ones have been better for meeting the objectives? If yes, which variables and/or methods and why?
3. Study conduct and quality control
a. How has the study population been recruited (e.g., patients in a clinic, volunteers to advertisements, random digit dialing, area sampling of households, etc.)? If different groups of participants are recruited through different mechanisms (e.g., cases and controls, exposed and unexposed), provide this information for each primary group). Epidemiology Practice Questions Assignment Help
b. What steps were taken to minimize non-participation and selective factors in recruitment? In retention? How effective were these steps?
c. How successful, overall, was the data collection? What major steps were taken to improve and
document the accuracy of the data collected?
APA Paper Formatting Basics
- All text should be double-spaced
- Use one-inch margins on all sides
- All paragraphs in the body are indented
- Make sure that the title is centered on the page with your name and school/institution underneath
- Use 12-point font throughout
- All pages should be numbered in the upper right hand corner
- The manual recommends using one space after most punctuation marks
- A shortened version of the title (“running head”) should be placed in the upper left hand corner
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