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1. Investigation of the determinants of disease is known as:

Analytic epidemiology
2. A Prevalence is a measure of disease frequency in a
defined population over a specified period of time.
3. Which of the following is an example of a cyclical trend in
epidemiology?
The rate of RSV admissions in the fall of each year in
the western states
4. The purpose of studies in epidemiology is what?
To explain a change in disease patterns
To alert the healthcare community to unusual signs
and symptoms in an individual
To describe new diseases
All the above
5. _____refers to the raw number of health phenomena
under investigation and would include health events births
such as births, cases of a disease, and deaths
6. The nurse researcher is designing an intervention study;
the nurse is creating two participant groups. Which of the
following are examples of participant groups for an
intervention study on treatment for patients with
diagnosed hypertension?
 Group A is going to take a new medication for
hypertension, group B is going to receive a placebo to
treat hypertension
7. An example of the etiology of lung cancer is which of the
following
Smoking history
8. Epidemiology studies involve which of the following
fundamental assumptions?
The disease being studied does not occur at random
9. These are changes in disease patterns that are often
predictable and recur over time, are seen more readily in
health care, particularly as they relate to infectious
diseases
Cyclical trends
10. Cross-sectional studies, also called prevalence
studies, measure exposure and disease using prevalence
ratios which measure what?
Estimate magnitude of association between exposure
and disease
11. Unlike case-control studies where individuals are
selected based on the presence or absence of disease, in
cohort studies individuals are selected based on their
exposure
True
12. Which of the following is an example of
epidemiology?
 Studying the effect of STD prevention on STD
prevalence rates
13. Rate describes the number of existing cases of
disease in a population
False
14. Secular trends, changes in disease patterns that occur
over a long period of time, are often difficult to interpret
but can yield important information
True
15. The cycle of transmission of disease from host to the
agent can be broken with what three steps?
Immunizations, isolation, and treatment
16. Which of the following is the statistical test for a
cohort study?
Relative risk
17. Which of the following is an example of a pandemic?
An outbreak of cholera affecting the world
18. The term that describes the number of existing
causes of disease in a population is:
Prevalence
19. A widespread occurrence of disease in a community
or population that is in excess of what is expected.
Epidemic
20. The statistical test used for a case control study is the
odds ration
True
 QUIZ 4 CANVAS
1. Which of the following is an example of a case-control
study?
Studying a group of people with breast cancer and a
group without breast cancer
2. A nurse is designing a community healthcare budget and
wants to ensure there is a sufficient amount of resources
for children with birth defects; in order to determine the
budget the nurse needs to determine what about children
with birth defects in the community of focus?
a. Prevalence
3. An endemic disease is best defined as
a. Disease that is localized to a particular geographic
area
4. In epidemiology the researcher needs to consider the
descriptive characteristics of the person. Which of the
following is not a descriptive characteristic of the person?
a. Political affiliation
5. These are changes in disease patterns that are often
predictable and recur over time, are seen more readily in
health care, particularly as they relate to infectious
diseases.
a. Cyclical trends
6. ________ are factors that are capable of bringing a change
in health
a. Determinants
7. The ability of the test to correctly identify people without
the disease by negative results is:
a. Specificity
8. Which of the following is an example of a case report in
epidemiology?
a. Five men in Europe have had similar symptoms of
fever, convulsions, and uncontrollable bleeding
leading to death.
9. The nurse researcher is aware that count data are not
particularly useful when comparing populations of
different sizes because:
a. larger populations will generally have higher
incidence of a health occurrence than smaller
populations regardless of other associated factors
10. Pandemic is a widespread occurrence of a disease in a
community or population that is in excess of what is
expected. Endemic is a pandemic that has spread
worldwide.
a. False