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A strong research protocol should be detailed enough that which of the following sections of any paper that will result from the project could be written before data collection begins?


A) Abstract
B) Methods
C) Results
D) Introduction

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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A grant usually requires that a particular deliverable, such as a commissioned report, be submitted to the funding agency by the end of the contract period.

A) True
B) False

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In which citation style are all authors listed in the first in-text citation but subsequent in-text citations will have only the first author's last name with "et al." after it?


A) AMA style
B) APA style
C) Chicago style
D) Vancouver style

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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What type of experimental study would aim to demonstrate the intervention is not worse than the control?


A) Superiority trial
B) Inferiority trial
C) Equivalence trial
D) Noninferiority trial

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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The incorrect attribution of population-level associations to individuals is called the _________________.

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When a greater proportion of the total population is sampled for inclusion in the estimation of mean age, the confidence interval for the mean age will be wider because there is greater certainty about the sample mean being close to the population mean.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following will help clarify the flow of the story line and the relationships among the study's objectives, methods, results, and conclusions?


A) Organizing a poster
B) Answering questions during a Q&A session
C) Taking a long walk away from the computer
D) Developing an elevator pitch that tells the main lesson learned from the project in 30 seconds

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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The application for what type of analysis must include evidence that the data are in the public domain or that appropriate individuals or organizations have granted the researcher permission to analyze the data?


A) Primary analysis
B) Secondary analysis
C) Meta-analysis
D) Mixed methods analysis

E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

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The main limitation of closed-ended questions is that they may force respondents to select answers that do not truly express their status or opinions.

A) True
B) False

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___________________ are essential for any outbreak investigation, no matter what study approach is used to investigate the epidemic.

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For closed-ended questions and quantitative surveys, a codebook is even more essential because it provides clear instructions for how to code and enter free-response comments.

A) True
B) False

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A quantitative study looks for the themes and measures that emerge from the observation of and interaction with key informants.

A) True
B) False

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An editor who raises important questions about the interpretation of the result and the meaning of the work should not earn authorship for a research paper.

A) True
B) False

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What type of study is used to study individual participants over a lengthy period of time?


A) Repeated cross-sectional study
B) KAP survey
C) Longitudinal study
D) Meta-analysis

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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Asking participants to complete their self-administered questionnaires at the same place and time can generate a lot of data quickly.

A) True
B) False

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_________________________ examines a broad spectrum of biological, socioeconomic, environmental, and other factors that contribute to the presence or absence of physical, mental, and social health and well-being.

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Which of the following is present when content experts and users agree that a survey instrument will be easy for study participants to understand and correctly complete?


A) Content validity
B) Face validity
C) Construct validity
D) Criterion validity

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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________________________ is the measurement of the human body. Measurements of this type are often important in health research, especially in studies of nutritional status.

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The nested case-control study minimizes what type of bias because information about past exposures was collected at the time of the exposure and is not based on participants' memories?


A) Misclassification bias
B) Nonrandom sampling bias
C) Ascertainment bias
D) Recall bias

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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One of the common approaches used to track the articles identified during a literature review is the creation of an ____________________________.

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