CHLH 274 Final Exam Study Guide
Determine if the study type includes manipulation and/or randomization:
Experimental - ✔✔Both manipulation and randomization
Determine if the study type includes manipulation and/or ran
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CHLH 274 Final Exam Study Guide
Determine if the study type includes manipulation and/or randomization:
Experimental - ✔✔Both manipulation and randomization
Determine if the study type includes manipulation and/or randomization:
Quasi-Experimental - ✔✔Manipulation NOT Randomization
Determine if the study type includes manipulation and/or randomization:
Observational - ✔✔NEITHER manipulation or randomization
What type of study is most convincing for conferring evidence of association between risk
factors and outcomes? - ✔✔experimental studies
What type of study is a randomized clinical trial? - ✔✔experimental study
Randomized clinical trials are usually implemented as ____ - ✔✔intervention studies
What is the purpose of an experimental study? - ✔✔The use of experiment to derive knowledge
about the CAUSE OF DISEASE
___study is an investigation involving the intentional change in some aspect of the status of
subjects - ✔✔intervention study
What type of study is used to test efficacy of preventative or therapeutic measures? -
✔✔intervention studies
What are the two categories of intervention studies? - ✔✔1. clinical trials
2. community trial/community intervention
True or False:
Clinical trials focus on the group or community - ✔✔False
Clinical trials focus on the individual
____ is a research activity that involves the administration of a test regimen to humans to
evaluate its efficacy and safety - ✔✔a clinical trial
A____ evaluates the effectiveness of a substance (like a vaccine) that is used to PREVENT a
disease - ✔✔prophylactic trial
A_____ involves the study of CURATIVE drugs or new surgical procedures to improve the
patient's health - ✔✔therapeutic trial
What are the phases of clinical trials for new vaccines? - ✔✔Phase 1- tests new vaccine in fewer
than 100 adults volunteers
Phase II- expands testing to group of 100-200 subject from target population
Phase III- assesses the efficacy of the vaccine in the target population
____is the reduction in the incidence rate of a disease in a vaccinated population compared with
an unvaccinated population - ✔✔vac
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