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What is incidence and prevalence used for?

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To compare the epidemiological triad

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What is the epidemiological triad? (3)

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  1. Time
  2. Person
  3. Place
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What is incident rate?

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Number of new case occurring in a period/ number of people at risk in a population.

(Those that can contract the disease)

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What is prevalence?

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Number of people in the population with the disease at a certain time.

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What is prevalence useful for? (what disease type?)

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Chronic disease

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What is case fatality rate?

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Number of people who die from the disease in a period/ number of people with disease

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What is mortality rate?

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number of people who die from the disease in period/ number of people who die in period

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What is adjustment?

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reducing the effects of the population factors that may sway the result.

example - age adjustment

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How is age adjustment done?

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By stratum specific rates

  • The study divides different categories of age and sex.
  • Incidence of each group is calculated
  • standardised weightings are assigned to the groups - based on this data is adjusted accordingly
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How is the likelihood of a particular outcome measured?

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Risk and odds

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What is risk?

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  • the probability of disease

1 = Certain to happen

0 = Will not happen

  • number of new cases/ number at risk
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Why can’t you assign a personal risk?

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As the person is either going to get the disease or not.

  • can assign a group lifetime risk
    e. g. Heavy smokers risk of developing lung cancer
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What is a risk ratio?

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Comparison of risks between 2 groups

  • risk in exposed group vs risk in unexposed group
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When is a risk ratio used?

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In cohort studies only

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What is a cohort study?

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  • Investigates the causes of disease, establishing links between risk factors and health outcomes.
  • Cohort studies are usually forward-looking - that is, they are “prospective” studies, or planned in advance and carried out over a future period of time.
    e. g testing new drug - half get new drug and half get current treatment
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How are cohort studies selected?

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By their exposure

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What is calculated in a cohort study?

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Incidence of disease

  • those of the cohort that smoke and how many of them got lung cancer at the end of the study
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What is the risk ratio a measure of?

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Of relative risk

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What does it mean if the relative risk = 1?

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no difference between the 2 groups

  • risk / odds is the same in exposed and control group
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What does it mean if the relative risk is

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exposure is protective

risk / odds in exposed group is less than in control group

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What does it mean if the relative risk > 1 ?

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exposure is harmful

risk/odds in exposed group is greater than in control group

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What is the relative risk?

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Risk for treated group/ Risk of control group x 100

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What is the relative risk reduction?

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100 - relative risk

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What is the risk difference?

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0 = there is no risk difference between unexposed or exposed

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What are odds?
probability of an event vs probability of no event
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When are odds used?
When risk can't be calculated Case control studies/ RCTs (randomised control trials)
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What is the odds ratio?
odds for disease of exposed group / odds of disease of unexposed group
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What is dichotomous?
variable takes 1 of 2 forms example - dead/ alive
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When can an odds ratio be used in a RCT?
When the RCT is dichotomous
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What does the normal distribution curve look like?
bell-shaped curve
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What does the highest point of the normal distribution curve equate to?
Mean Median Mode
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What is the standard deviation of the normal distribution curve?
95% of the data lie within 1.96 standard deviation.
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What are categoric variables?
Distinct categories
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What can categoric variables be divided into? (2)
1. ordinal - stage of cancer at diagnosis | 2. nominal - sex
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What are numerical variables?
Numerical values only
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What can numerical variables be divided into?
1. continuous - age | 2. discrete - number of hospital visits
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What do frequency tables record and show?
Records - frequency distribution Shows - frequency and relative frequency
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What are bar charts used for?
for categorical and discrete numerical data
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What are pie charts used for?
categorical or discrete numeric data
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What are histograms used for and what does the bar mean?
frequency of distribution of continuous variables. classes are used to group data and create a frequency table. area of bar is proportional of frequency
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What is standard deviation?
numerical data only measure of spread shows the average distance of data values from the mean.
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What do each quartile denote?
Q1 25% - interquartile Q2 50% - median Q3 75% - interquartile
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What does non- normally distributed curves use?
Median and IQR not effected by outliers
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What is chi-squared used for?
to determine an association between categorical variables
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When is a correlation analysis used?
outcome - numerical exposure - numerical
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When is a t test or Mann- Whitney test used?
outcome - numerical exposure - categorical - independent group
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When is a paired T-test or sign test used?
outcome - numerical exposure - categorical - non-independent groups
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What are confidence intervals?
measure of spread of data can used z values
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What are the confidence intervals like for larger studies?
smaller as they reduce the spread of the data and increase the accuracy of the result in relation to the population
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What is standard error?
measure of how reliable the sample population mean is from that of the population. measure of precision used to calculate confidence interval
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How do you calculate the standard error?
standard deviation / root of the sample size
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What is a large sample CI?
- more than 200 records in sample with an estimated SD or known SD - CI can be calculated from normal distribution tables using Z values Z= 1.96 or -1.96
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What is a small sample?
- less than 200 records - use T-distribution - as CI for these should be broader calculation uses degrees of freedom
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What does 95% confidence interval mean?
if the experiment was repeated 100 times the result would be in the range of the confidence interval 95 of those times.
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What are p values?
The probability of something happening.
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What p value is used in hypothesis testing?
p
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What is primary prevention?
removing a cause e.g. environemnt cause, social ,economic and dietary
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What is secondary prevention?
prevention of disease by screening e.g. diagnostic tests
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What is tertiary prevention?
prevention of disease by treating clinical cases
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What is sensitivity?
how well a test detects a condition
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What is specificity?
how well a test excludes those who don't have the disease
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What is a positive predictive value?
probability someone has the condition if they are tested positively
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What is a negative predictive value?
probability someone doesn't have the condition when tested negatively
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What is accuracy?
proportion of tests that have given the correct results
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What is validity?
meausres accurately what it is meant to measure e.g. using BMI instead of weight
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What is reliability?
give the same result consistently
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What is responsiveness?
detection of real changes when they occur e.g. continuous QoL scale rather than categorical
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What is an inductive hypothesis?
proposed after an analysis
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What is a deductive hypothesis?
proposed before analysis - used to predict the outcome of 2 variables
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What is the outcome and exposure in the risk of gangrene in diabetes?
outcome is gangrene exposure - diabetes
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What is a sample?
is representative of population
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What is a simple random sample?
the only true sample population members are chosen at random
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What is a stratified sample?
members are chosen at random but the sample is set into groups to ensure that the groups with in the population are equally represented.
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What is an interval sample?
When you take samples at set intervals
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What is a cluster sample?
when you divide the population into clusters e.g UK divided into county clusters for healthcare

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