Assignment: Week3 Cohort Study Design
Assignment: Week3 Cohort Study Design
Assignment: Week3 Cohort Study Design
Week 3 discussion Discussion Part One Risk and Cohort Study Design As an Advanced Practice Nurse, you will care for patients who are at risk for specific diseases. Please pick one chronic or infectious disease specific to a population in your geographic area and provide evidence of risk, relative risk, and odds ratio in relation to that disease, and specific risks in the population you identified. Discussion Part Two Now that you have identified the disease and risk, what is one evidence-based action that you could take within your local community or patient population to prevent this risk? Discussion Part Three Please provide a summary of the case or information you have discussed this week.
Cohort studies are a type of medical research used to investigate the causes of disease and to establish links between risk factors and health outcomes.
The word cohort means a group of people. These types of studies look at groups of people. They (prospective) or backward-looking (retrospective).
Prospective” studies are planned in advance and carried out over a future period of time.
Retrospective cohort studies look at data that already exist and try to identify risk factors for particular conditions. Interpretations are limited because the researchers cannot go back and gather missing data.
These long-term studies are sometimes called longitudinal studies.
Fast facts on cohort studies
- Cohort studies typically observe large groups of individuals, recording their exposure to certain risk factors to find clues as to the possible causes of disease.
- They can be prospective studies and gather data going forward, or retrospective cohort studies, which look at data already collected.
- The Nurses’ Health Study is one example of a large cohort study, and it has produced many important links between lifestyle choices and health by following hundreds of thousands of women across North America.
- Such research can also help identify social factors that influence health.
