CITI Training - Research Study Design - All Modules
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CITI Training - Research Study Design - All Modules
In the case of interventional research,
the research question should specify
which of the following?
What does the Institutional Review
Board (IRB) do?
The alternative hypothesis states that
the connection between key factors of
interest a...
CITI Training - Research Study Design - All Modules
In the case of interventional research,
The population of individuals that re-
the research question should specify
searchers are interested in examining
which of the following?
Reviews proposed research in order to
assess that the research is in keeping
What does the Institutional Review
with ethical guidelines and regulatory re-
Board (IRB) do?
quirements in order to protect human
subjects.
The alternative hypothesis states that
the connection between key factors of
Not due to chance
interest and any observed connection is
most likely:
Which of these is the first step in specify-
Research question
ing the direction that research will take?
A proposed mechanism by which key
A hypothesis serves as: factors relevant to a research question
interact with one another
A successful literature review will de-
pend on how relevant and comprehen-
sive the chosen database is to the topics Chosen search terms
of interest, the search parameters, and
which of the following?
Which methodology best describes ob- No manipulation of study variables and
servational research designs? no randomization of subjects
A group of researchers want to examine
the age, gender, and socioeconomic sta-
Descriptive Research
tus of patrons of a local café chain. What
research design is this?
A group of researchers want to exam-
ine the effects of "Boston cream" donuts
versus "glazed" donuts. They observe a
group of people who only eat Boston
Prospective Cohort
cream donuts and another group that
only eats glazed donuts. The groups are
going to be followed for ten years and the
occurrence of diabetes will be compared
, CITI Training - Research Study Design - All Modules
amongst the two groups. What type of
study is this
A group of researchers find that very
few café customers are willing to talk to
them. So, they now decide to look at pub-
lic records available online at the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). They intend to access diabetes
prevalence data in each state. They are Correlational
then going to examine the number of
café franchises in each state. Finally,
they will look for a relationship between
the number of café franchises and dia-
betes prevalence. What type of study is
this?
The objectives of descriptive epidemiol-
ogy are to address who, what, where,
when, and how much of a variable un- Determine the prevalence of teenage
der study is occurring. Which area would pregnancies
be most appropriate for a descriptive re-
search design?
Researchers decide to find one cus-
tomer who is willing to speak to them
about their donut consumption. Appar-
ently, this customer only started patron-
izing a certain café chain two months
Case Study
ago. Around the same time, she began
experiencing migraine headaches. The
researchers decide to do an in-depth
analysis of this one case. What type of
study is this?
Researchers are testing the effects of a
new weight loss method. Subjects will
be randomly assigned to groups. One
group will follow the new method and the
other group will not. All subjects will be
randomized a second time to watch a nu-
tritional information video and the other
, CITI Training - Research Study Design - All Modules
group will receive a motivational speech.
This will result in four different groups as
follows:
Weight Loss Method + Motivational
Speech
Weight Loss Method + Informational
Factorial
Video
No Weight Loss Method + Motivational
Speech
No Weight Loss Method + Informational
Video
What type of design is this?
A researcher is planning a study to test
the safety and efficacy of a drug to treat
asthma. The study will be conducted
amongst adult patients with asthma who Reference Population
do not have other major pulmonary dis-
eases. Which best describes all patients
with asthma?
Because it is unethical to utilize a place-
bo-controlled design in cases where not
offering study subjects an intervention
would subject them to undue harm, and
Active comparator
where an efficacious or effective inter-
vention that exists is available, the best
design option for a study involving such
a situation would be:
Researchers are interested in examin-
ing whether a rigorous exercise program
may prevent the development of car-
diovascular disease. The subjects are
Preventive
healthy individuals, but considered at
risk of developing cardiovascular dis-
ease. How should this study be broadly
categorized?
Researchers are testing an experimen-
tal drug believed to be effective for con-
trolling mild symptoms of arthritis. They
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