A total of 4510 market workers in Fuzhou, China, participated in the study, and

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A total of 4510 market workers in Fuzhou, China, participated in the study, and longitudinal analyses included study samples of 3785 participants in the 12-month follow-up and 3716 participants in the 24-month follow-up. We graphically examined the change in HIV-related stigma indicators over time between control and intervention groups using boxplot and kernel density estimation. A logistic regression analysis with proportional odds model was further used to examine the intervention effect on HIV-related stigmatizing attitudes.

-The distributions of the HIV stigma scores at baseline are very similar in the both the control and intervention groups. Why is this (most likely) the case? (hint: consider the study design). Please answer in a single sentence.

I believe this has to do with the cohort study.

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The reason why the baseline scores for the control and the intervention group are very similar is :

"This is due to a confounding factor that neutralises the effect of control and intervention group, this happens due to the cohort study design in which the sample comes from the same background possessing same characterstics"

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