Design an epidemiological study for the scenario below and provide at minimum th

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Design an epidemiological study for the scenario below and provide at minimum the following information about your study. If one of the questions isn’t applicable to your study, respond N/A after the question.:

Scenario A researcher wants to survey the prevalence of STIs among female college students at four universities. Two of these universities have large educational and outreach campaigns for sexual protection and testing, while the other two do not.

Study type (observational or experimental)

Study design (randomized trial, cohort, case-control, or cross-sectional)

Study hypothesis

Define your target population

Describe how you will recruit or identify study participants to best represent the target population

Describe the risks and benefits of participating in the study

Provide a case definition (e.g. in a cohort study, how will you diagnose those who become ill, in a case-control or cross-sectional study, what characteristics does the participant need to have to be considered a case)

Describe exposures or risk factors and how you will measure them

Describe exclusion criteria (e.g. in a prospective cohort study, a person who tests positive for illness at or near baseline must be excluded)

Describe how you will collect data for your study (survey, medical records, laboratory tests, etc.)

Divide subjects as appropriate for your study design (i.e. exposed/unexposed, case/control)

Describe outcome measure for study, how it’s calculated, and how it’s to be interpreted (you don’t need to actually do calculations, but provide the equations and give an example of how they’re interpreted): For example: RR=a/(a+b) interpreted as the risk of lung cancer in smokers is X times greater (or less) than it is in non-smokers

Give justification for your study design (tell why you chose that particular study design, why it is appropriate, and what you hoped to learn from doing the study)

Brief discussion of study strengths and weaknesses including a discussion of causal hypotheses and biases as they relate to your study design

Explanation / Answer

Study type is experimental.

Study design is case control or cross sectional.

Hypothesis is providing education on sexually transmitted infection makes females students more alert and such awareness programs help them to discuss topics and questions related to it openly.

Target population is group of females who attended study programs of STI compare to girls who have not

By conducting a checklist question paper where I can assess my target population knowledge of STI and distributing the question paper among females and knowing their opinion.

Risk is females with half knowledge or who don't understand the topic importance can understand the whole topic depending on their perspective

Benefit is girls will be aware more and the hygiene associated with it

One group of participants must have attended education program compare to group of females who have no education on STI

Risk factors are girl who have less information on STI are on risk of suffering case UTI infection,hpv infection etc. Based on their knowledge and having an open discussion will help me to know how much females are aware.

Exclusion criteria is females below the age of 15

Survey and providing them checklist queries will be my source of collecting information

Subjects is females who have attended education program compare to females who haven't

Outcomes is girls who have attended training program are much more aware with hygiene associated with STI and other mediums by which infection can be avoided. The girls are not expose to such training programs have less information about what need to be done for safe practice of hygiene and the risk associated with the casualness behaviour.

My aim is to compare the impact of education program and giving opportunity to discuss about the risk factors associated with it. Females somehow feel uncomfortable to discuss these topics openly but giving them platform for open discussion help them to grow individually.

Study strength is females who are active physically and age group of more than 18

Weakness studying it on large groups of females who have less education on STI will be much beneficial

Biasness is study was conducted on only four university females.we have no information about other university females.

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