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03 - research designs Flashcards

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Observational - define

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When occurrences or changes in the independent variable occur as a result of natural history

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Experimental - define

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When occurrence or change in the IV is manipulated by the investigator

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Synonym of observational studies

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Nonexperimental study

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Investigator decides who gets exposure (not the subjects)
Exposure is deliberately manipulated, intervention
May be done on individuals or groups/populations

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Experimental studies

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Types of observational designs (4)

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  • Ecological studies
  • Cohort studies
  • Case-control studies
  • Cross-sectional studies
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Retrospective - define

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Assessment of the previous occurrence of dependent variable in an attempt to reconstruct an influencing factor

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Prospective (longitudinal) - define

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When the DV is observed overtime

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Characteristics of cohort studies (4)

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  • Studies of individuals
  • Begin by classifying subjects on the basis of their exposure
  • Subjects then followed up to determine the rate of the study outcome
  • May be prospective or retrospective
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Characteristics of case-control studies (3)

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  • Study of individuals
  • Begin by classifying subjects on the basis of their outcome
  • Then exposure is retrospectively ascertained for cases and control
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What are cases?

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Subjects with the outcome of interest

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What are controls?

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Subjects without the outcome of interest

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Characteristics of cross-sectional studies (3)

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  • Studies of individuals (ex: population survey)
  • Exposure and outcome status are simultaneously ascertained in all subjects
  • Because exposure and outcome are measured at the same time, it is often difficult to differentiate between cause and effect
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Advantages of cohort studies (2)

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  • Provides an absolute measure of risk
  • Allows the study of multiple disease outcome
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Disadvantages of cohort studies (5)

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  • Can be expensive
  • Time consuming
  • Ineffective for rare outcomes
  • Loss to follow-up
  • Can only assess risk factors at baseline
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Advantages of case-control studies (3)

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  • Quick(ish) and easy
  • Can be used for rare events
  • Can control for certain aspect
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Disadvantages of case-control studies (4)

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  • Cannot determine absolute risk
  • Subject to recall bias
  • Specifically associated with 1 factor/disease
  • Temporal relationship uncertain
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Advantages of cross-sectional surveys (2)

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  • Quick and easy
  • Generates hypothesis
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Disadvantages of cross-sectional surveys (3)

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  • No temporal relationship
  • Cannot define causation
  • Normally requires larger sample sizes
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3 types of experimental design (3)

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Pre-experimental designs
Natural/quasi-experiments
True experiments

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Weakest degree of experimental control
No random assignments of participants
Control very few sources of invalidity

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Pre-experimental designs

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3 types of pre-experimental designs

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  1. One-shot design
  2. One-group pre- and post-design
  3. Static group comparison
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  • People are in a group for natural reasons they are not randomly assigned (ex: class, sports team)
  • An independent variable is introduced in a real world setting or occurs by chance
  • There is no randomization so groups may not be equivalent
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Natural (quasi-) experiments

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3 types of quasi-experiments

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  • Pre and post design
  • Repeated measures
  • Time series
24
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In randomized designs, the only difference between groups prior to treatment is due to ___ or __

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Chance or sampling error

25
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The estimate of sampling error is called ___

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Error

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The effect of the independent variable is called ___ or ___

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Treatment or experimental variance

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What is the minimax principle?

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Demonstrates how to minimize error variance while maximizing treatment variance

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Minimax principle is done through what? (3)

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  • Randomization
  • Sample size
  • Use of a sound research design
29
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Gold standard in research
Randomization of participants + control group

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True experimental designs

30
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2 types of true experimental designs

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Post-test only
Pre- and post-test design

31
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What is the main effect - TED

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Effects of each independent variables

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