Kinesiology 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Absolute Difference, Relative Risk, Population Health
21 Feb 2018
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Main approaches in pa epidemiology: observational studies, uncontrolled study, researchers collect data about pa without intervening, results lead to association, experimental studies, researcher actively manipulates pa in (randomly) assigned groups and then collects data on the outcomes. Intervention: results lead to more cause and effect. Study: sciencific process of answering a question: first- what are we trying to find out, what is the best way to answer this question, collect and analyze data. Systematic review: unbiased summary: meta-analysis: combined analysis and produces single summary result. Study designs: what you should know: describe the study design. 8490, bias, time. etc: what kind of evidence does it provide? (association, causal link?) Describes distribution of exposure and how it relates to other health factors in a population at a particular time. Similar to case control but uses participants in a cohort study to identify cases and controls. Since it is an observation study, would lead to association.
