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Mock Epidemiology Study Summary
Mock Epidemiology Study Summary
Introduction and Alignment
This exercise will test whether you can apply first the basic principles, vocabulary, and processes you learned, both biostatistical and epidemiologic, in the first four weeks of the course, and given the practice you had with reading and responding to three different published articles in the fifth week, to actually designing a health sciences research study and writing it up in scholarly format, with all it appropriate pieces, “just as if” you had actually carried it out. Hopefully, in the future, you will have the chance to carry out such a study for real. Mock Epidemiology Study Summary
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Upon completion of this assignment, you should be able to:
- Design and write up a health research study on a diverse (in terms of ethnicity, nationality, or another factor) population. Write up each component part of the study, “just as if” you had actually carried it out yourself.
Resources
- Textbook: American Psychological Association. (2017). APA Style Central. Retrieved from http://apastylecentral.apa.org
- Textbook: Macha, K., & McDonough, J. P. (2012). Epidemiology for advanced nursing practice. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
- Textbook: Sullivan, L. M. (2018). Biostatistics in public health (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
- Chapter 2 Study Designs
- Chapter 3 Quantifying the Extent of Disease
- Chapter 4 Summarizing Data Collected in the Sample
- Chapter 6 Confidence Interval Estimates
- Chapter 7 Hypothesis Testing Procedures
- Chapter 8 Power and Sample Size Determination
- Chapter 10 Nonparametric Tests
- Video: Week 6 Video
- MP3: Audio only Week 6 Video
- File: 6.3 Epidemiology Study Guide
- File: 6.3 Epidemiology Research Websites for Generating Case Study Ideas
Instructions
- For this paper, choose Professional format in APA Style Central as it will guide you through the writing of your abstract and author note.
- Download the file Exercise 6.3 Epidemiology Study Guide 10.2018
- Using this guide, write up an epidemiology study just as if you had performed it. Further detailed instructions are included on the guide. Abstracts are usually 250 words or less so please use the Word Count feature under the Review tab.
- When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself and submit a copy to your instructor using the Dropbox.
Epidemiological Research Websites for Generating Case Study Ideas
International Public Health Organizations
Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics http://www.cseb.ca/resources.php
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx
World Health Organization http://www.who.int/en/
U.S. Public Health Organizations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/
National Cancer Institute http://resresources.nci.nih.gov/categorydisplay.cfmcatid=666
National Mental Health Information Center http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/
Pan American Health Organization http://new.paho.org/
Research Databases
CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature) http://www.ebscohost.com/cinahl/
International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS http://www.iedea-hiv.org/
Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
Medscape http://www.medscape.com/
Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press http://www.oxfordjournals.org/
Public Health Reports http://www.publichealthreports.org/index.cfm
Science Direct http://www.sciencedirect.com/
SpringerLink http://www.springerlink.com/home/main.mpx
Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results http://seer.cancer.gov/
The Cochrane Collaboration http://www.cochrane.org/
University of CA, SF, The WWW Virtual Library: Medicine and Health: Epidemiology http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/epidem/epidem.html#DAT
U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Public Health Journals
American Journal of Epidemiology http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/
American Journal of Public Health http://www.ajph.org/
BMC Public Health http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpublichealth/
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness http://www.dmphp.org/
Emerging Infectious Diseases http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm
The European Journal of Public Health http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/
Global Public Health http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g915842079
Journal of Environmental and Public Health http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/
Journal of Public Health http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/
Journal of Public Health http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/index.html
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice http://journals.lww.com/jphmp/pages/default.aspx
Journal of Public Health Nursing http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0737-1209
Search Engines
Google http://www.google.com/
Bing http://www.bing.com/
Yahoo http://m.www.yahoo.com/
Altavista http://www.altavista.com/
Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases, US (updated regularly by the CDC and state PH departments) https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss/conditions/
International Data Banks and Resources
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (replica of the U.S. CDC; focuses on the health of European Union nations) http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx
Public Health Agency of Canada http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/index-eng.php
Health Protection Agency (includes The Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, the Centre for Infections, the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, and the National Institute for Biological Standards and Controls are all part of the Health Protection Agency) http://www.hpa.org.uk/HPA/
Institut De Veille Sanitaire, France http://www.invs.sante.fr/
Public Health Foundation of India http://www.phfi.org/home.asp
Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong http://www.chp.gov.hk/
KEY POINTS regarding PH Agencies
• The collection, maintenance, analysis, and storage of health data are vital for planning effective public health action.
• Public health organizations play an important role in conducting research while also providing services to promote the public’s health.
• Health policy and law can be influenced through epidemiological research.
• Surveillance systems in the community continuously update health status information and provide us with feedback on community medical services.
• Epidemiologists use many types of technology for effective communication. Automation of information systems allows public health professionals to be alerted at all levels.
• Ethical issues, data privacy, quality of data, and storage are some of the challenges associated with the use of information and technology in the field of epidemiology.
Exercise 6.3 epidemiology study summary Guide
Directions: This assignment will give you an opportunity to demonstrate what you have learned about epidemiologic methods, statistical tests, bioethical principles in research, and how to apply these to clinical problems.
Choose a plausible epidemiology topic pertaining to a diverse population you would like to study. The topic should relate to a diverse (in terms of ethnicity, nationality, culture, etc.) population. In APA style, write a formal paper that reads as if you had actually conducted the study. It must include the elements as outlined below and be coherent throughout. The paper should be no longer than 4-6 pages of text; about the length of a published article. Include title, abstract and references pages. Mock Epidemiology Study Summary
1. Write the purpose of your study along with 2-3 sentences elaborating on the problem and significance of the problem related to the purpose. You may use supporting evidence from other published work to explain or support the problem you are describing.
2. Write at least 2 research questions related to the purpose of the study. Be explicit rather than vague.
3. Write a null and an alternative hypothesis for each of these two questions.
4. State which one of your two research questions you are addressing from this point on. Identify and explain the dependent and independent variables, as well as the variable type (nominal, ordinal, etc.) for each variable.
5. Describe the subjects you have included in this study, including the number of subjects and how they were recruited. Describe all the characteristics and factors of the subjects that are relevant to the purpose of the study.
6. What is the basic design or type of study you have used to investigate your hypothesis? Explain how you collected your data.
7. Select the statistical test needed to test the null hypothesis. The selected statistical test must be selected from the ones reviewed in this course, unless you have permission from your course instructor to use a different test. Explain why you selected the test and how you have analyzed the variables. State in general terms (not actual numbers) what your results were from the statistical analyses, and whether they led you to reject or fail to reject your null hypothesis. Mock Epidemiology Study Summary
8. What ethical issues or bias need to be taken into consideration with this study? Please explain.
9. State the implications of these findings for healthcare practice. Discuss the impact these results would have on clinical practice and healthcare policy. Use published work to give support to your discussion. (See next page for grading rubric. )
Epidemiology Study Summary Paper | Points |
1. Included an abstract in correct form i.e. no first line indent, written in past tense, and complete methodology (study question, variables and purpose, hypothesis, design, sampling (how target diverse population represented), statistical analysis, findings, and hypothesis conclusions described with clarity and brevity. | /2 |
2. The purpose of the study along with 2-3 sentences elaborates on the problem and the significance of the problem related to the purpose. Used supporting evidence from other published work to explain or support the problem described. | /4 |
3. Proposed at least two research questions related to the purpose of the study; are explicit rather than vague. | /2 |
4. A null and alternate hypothesis posed for each of the two questions. | /4 |
5. State one research question of focus. Identified and explained the dependent and independent variables, as well as the type of data used to measure the variables. | /4 |
6. Described subjects and the number included in the study. Described the characteristics and factors of the subjects relevant to the study purpose, and the greater population represented. | /6 |
7. Identified the basic design or type of study used to investigate the hypothesis. Explained the steps used to collect data. | /6 |
8. Selected statistical test(s) appropriate to the variable types to test the null hypothesis from those reviewed in this course, unless permission was given from the course instructor to use a different test. Explained why the test(s) were selected and how the variables were analyzed. Stated the results of the statistical analyses in general terms (not actual numbers), and if the results led to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis. | /6 |
9. Explained the ethical issues and bias considered with the study. | /4 |
10. Stated the implications of the findings for healthcare practice. Discussed the impact the results will have on clinical practice and healthcare policy. Used peer reviewed sources to support to the discussion. | /4 |
11. At least three peer reviewed sources are cited and referenced. | /4 |
12. APA formatting and writing style, grammar. | /4 |
Total | /50 |
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