Research Applications Flashcards

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Research report

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Results: specific lab, clinical, objective, or subjective findings

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Descriptive research

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Correlation studies or ecological studies: compare frequency of events (or disease rates) in different populations with the percapita consumption of certain dietary factors (correlation between fish consumption and breast cancer incidence)

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Analytical research

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Experimental group: receives the program or treatment
Control group: does not receive the treatment or may receive a placebo

Parallel design: participants are randomly assigned to a particular treatment group and remain on that treatment throughout the study

Cross-sectional (prevalence study): snap shots look at one point in time, describes current not past or future events

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IRB

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Institutional review board under the FDA

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Variables

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Dependent: outcomes

Independent: what you manipulate in your study

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Central tendency

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Mean: simple average
Median: midpoint
Mode: most frequently occurring value

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Standard deviation

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about 2/3 (68%) of all observations in a normal distribution lie within 1 SD of the mean

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Double blind study

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removes bias from research, neither the researcher nor the subject knows which group is receiving the treatment and which the placebo

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Mortality

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rate of death

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Morbidity

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state of disease

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Inferential statistics

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techniques that allow conclusions to extend beyond an immediate data set, what is the probability that the results can be applied to a larger group

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Pilot study

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includes every step in the study

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