final Flashcards
types of surveys include
questioner, delphi method, personal interview, telephone interviews, normative surveys
most important part of a survey includes
who you are sending it to subject
types of descriptive research methods
developmental, case studies, job analysis, observational research, correlation research
developmental research includes
Longitudinal design, cross sectional design
case studies include
descriptive, interpretive, evaluative (small number of plp)
job analysis include
surveys, interviews, shadowing
observational research include
observing, 4 w’s, scoring observations(narrative, tallying, interval, duration)
unobtrusive research include
people that don’t know they are being studied
correlation research include
relations between two or more things
**epidemiology research is what
looking at what things are related to health and how frequent are these in the general population.
***Framingham heart study is what
longest well known most continuous study of heart disease in the world.
***3 major risk factors for heart disease
smoking high bp high cholesterol
**descriptive epidemiology of epidemiological study includes
cross sectional design
**analytical design of epidemiological study includes
cohort studies
**case studies include from epidemiology
participants from a group with a disorder and compare with cases without the disorder
**cohort studies include from epidemiology
groups expose to causes of disorder vs those that are not exposed
**what is the three criteria for causes and effect
- cause must proceed the the effect in time
- cause and effect must be correlated
- correlation between cause and effect cant be explained by a another variable
categorical variable
category
control variable
what the experiment is giving you pill, placebo
dependent varibale
effect of independent varibale
internal validity
did A cause B
external validity
how well does this work in the real world?
threats to internal validity
history, maturation, testing, instrumentation, selection of participants as well as losing them
experimental design is the only design that will do what
cause and effect
nih means what
national institute of health primary grant that gives out money for research
