Study Designs

Question 1

What are two categories that epi studies can be broken down to?

Answer 1

Descriptive studies
Analytic Studies

Question 2

What are descriptive studies?

Answer 2

these studies deals with the distribution of disease, in other words they deal with disease frequency

Question 3

What are analytic studies?

Answer 3

These studies deals with determinants of diseases. in other words, they look at causal relationships between outcome and exposure! we test hypotheses

Question 4

What is the main difference between analytic and descriptive studies?

Answer 4

the ability to draw comparisons between groups

Question 5

What is another way we can think of descriptive and analytic studies?

Answer 5

we can think of them as observational and experimental studies

Question 6

What is an observational study

Answer 6

a study that examines conditions and events that already occurred or will occur anyway

Question 7

what is an experimental study?

Answer 7

study in which condition are under direct control the investigator