Study Types

Question 1

Experimental Studies

Answer 1

Randomised Control Trial and Quasi experiment (non-randomised)

Question 2

Observational studies

Answer 2

cohort study
case control study
cross-sectional survey
case reports

Question 3

Randomised control trial definition

Answer 3

randomly selects a group of patients to receive a treatment and the others get a placebo

Question 4

Quasi experiment

Answer 4

non-randomly assigns groups and gives treatment to one group and a placebo to another

Question 5

Cohort study

Answer 5

follows a group of people to track risk factors and outcomes

Question 6

case-control study

Answer 6

compares histories of a group of people with a condition to a group of those without the condition

Question 7

cross-sectional survey

Answer 7

assesses the prevalence of an outcome in a broad population at one point in time

Question 8

case reports

Answer 8

detailed histories of a small number of individual cases

Question 9

Systematic review and meta-analysis

Answer 9

collects all previous studies on the topic and statistically combines the results