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Understanding Lab Research

Test your knowledge on lab research and its relationship to health. This quiz covers various aspects, including disease causation, health indicators, and statistical measures.

Multiple choice questions
Topics include epidemiology, health promotion, and statistics
Ideal for students, teachers, and health professionals

82 Questions20 MinutesCreated by AnalyzingData246

1. Who among the following introduce the concept of relationship of environment with human health?

Avicenna

Chakara

Hippocrates

Paracelsus

John Snow

2. Idea health indicator should be

Sensitive

Specific

Relevant

Measurement

All of the above

3. Sickness is a state of

Social dysfunction

Subjective state of a person feeling unwell

Impaired physiological function

Impaired psychological function

All of the above

4. Disease causation is best explained by

Theory of one to one relationship between causal agent and disease

Supernatural theory of disease

Empirical theory of disease causation

Multi factorial theory of disease causation

All of the above

5. Course of a disease process without any intervention is the definition of

Spectrum of disease

Epidemiology of disease

Natural history of disease

All of the above

Iceberg phenomenon

6, Morbidity in a community can best be estimated by

Active surveillance

Sentinel Surveillance

Passive surveillance

Monitoring

Evaluation

7. Which of prevention is applicable for implementation in a population without any risk factors?

Primordial prevention

Primary prevention

Secondary prevention

Tertiary prevention

All the above

8. All of the following are methods of health promotion except

Nutritional education

Immunization

Behavioral changes

Healthful housing

All of the above

9. In a conimunity an increase in new cases of a particular diseaseis due to

Increase in incidence rate

Increasing in prevalence rate

Both of the above

None of the above

Increasing in mortality rate

10. The most effective tool for measuring incidence of a disease in a community is

Case control study

Cohort study

Cross sectional study

Cross over study

Experimental study

11. Prevalence of a disease depends upon the following

Incidence

Duration

None of the above

All of the above are not correct

Both of the above

12. Prevalence is

Rate

Ratio

Proportion

Mode

Mean

13, Study of time, place and person distribution of health related events is known as

Descriptive epidemology

Experimental epidemiology

Analytical epidemi

Clinical epidemiology

Community epidemiology

14.The mean is

The best representation for every set of data

The middlemost score

The most frequently occurring score

The statistical or arithmetic average

All of the above

15. Given the following data set what is the value of the median?[2 4 3 6 1 8 9 2 5 7]

4.5

4.7

16, Given the following set of data, what is the range?[12 23 34 54 21 8 9 67]

17. Measure of central tendency are

Descriptive statistics that identify the spread of the scores in a data set

Inferential statistics that identify the spread of the scores in a data set

Inferential statistics that identify die best single value for representing a set data.

Descriptive statistics that identify the best value for representing a set of data

All of the above.

18. Descriptive statistics is

The number of objectives data.

The methods uses to describe the essential characteristics of the data.

About whether or not you can generalize from a sample.

All of these things.

All are not correct

19. Inferential statistics refers to

Thing like predicting one's next electricity bill.

How people can be differentiated from each other

Relying on philosophers

The confidence with which we can generalize from samples

All of the above

20. Numerical measurement is like

Scores

Category measurement

Physical measurement like height

The number of people with blonde hair

All of the above

21. A frequency is:

A set of cores

The number of individuals in a particular category

A score

A variable which occurs often.

A population

22, Nominal data are

A. Score

B. sampling

People's name

Small amounts of data

Categories with cannot be ordered from smallest to largest.

23. Ordinal data are like

Categories

Proportion

The amount of time the fourth person in the race book

Ratio data

First , second, third, fourth,..., last

24, Temperature is most like

Interval data

Nomunal data

Frequency

Ordinal data

Distribution

25. The number of question members of a class get right on is multiple choice test is an that example of

Nominal data

Ranking Standard deviation

Ordinal data

A score

26. The need for inferential statistical methods derives from the need for...

Probability

Correlation

Population

Association

Sampling

27. Statistics is essential to psychologists because

People differ a lot and in many respects

It is compulsory

Experience are rare the same

By using statistics can claim to be the researchers

Experiences are much the same

28. A population in statistical terms, is the totality of thing under consideration. It is the collection of all values of the.........that ins under study.

Instance

Variable

Amount

Measure

Group

Sampling in simply a process of learning about the on the basic or a sample drawn from it.

Census

Prevalence

Group

Area

Population

30. Which one of the following is the most accurate?

Interval data assumes research need a rest break

Experience are rare the same

Psychologists prefer category data

There is a subtle distinction between category and nominal data

There is a difference interval and ratio data

1. What is the advantage of using SPSS over calculating statistics by hand ?

This is how most quantitative data analysis is done in “real research “ nowaday

It reduces the chance of making errors in your calculations

It equips you with a useful transferable skill

All of the above

2. InSPSS, what is the "Data Viewer”?

A table summarizing the frequencies of data for one variable

A spreadsheet into which data can be entered

A dialog box that allows you to choose a statistical test

A screen in which variables can be defined and labeled

3. What are the main points to write the literaturereview?

Literature review which responds to question of who, when, what, where

Literature review which responds to question of When, Where, Why

Literature review which responds to question of When, Why What, How

Literature review which responds to question of Who, when,what, why D2

Literature review which responds to question of When, What, Where, Why

4. How is a variable name different from a variable label?

It is shorter and less detailed

It is longer and more detailed

Lt is abstract and unspecific

It refers to codes rather than variables

5. What does the operation "Recode Into Different Variables" do to the data?

Replaces missing data with some random scores

Reverses the position of the independent and dependent variable on a graph

Redistributes a range of values into a new set of categories and creates a new variable

Represents the data in the form of pie chart

6. How would you use the drop-down menus in SPSS to generate a frequency table?

Open the output Viewer and click: Save As; Pie Chart

Click on: Analyze;Descriptive Statistics: Frequencies

Click on Graphs: Frequencies: Pearson

Open the Variable Viewer and recode the value labels

7. Why might you tell SPSS to represent the ‘‘slice’’of a pie chart in different patterns?

Because the program tens to crash if you ask it to use color

Because the patterns form symbolic visual images of different social groups

In order to make full use of the facilities that SPSS can offer

If you do no have a color printer,it makes the different between the slices cleare

8. When cross-tabulating two viiriables, it is conventional to

went the independent variable in row, and the dependent variable in columns

Assign both the Dependent and independent Variable in column

Represent the dependent variable row and the independent variable in column

Assign both the dependent and independent variables to rows

9. In which sub-dialog box can e Chi Square test be found?

Frequencies :Percentages

Crosstabs: Statistics

Bivariate: Pearson

Gender Female

10. To generate a Spearman's rho test, which set of instructions should you give SPSS?

Analyze; Crosstabs ; Descriptive Statistics Spearman;OK

Graphs; Frequencies; [select Variable];Spearman OK

Analyze; Compare Mean; Anova table; first layer, Spearman OK

Analyze ; Correlate; Bivariate;[select variables]; Speannan: OK

11. How would you print a bar chart that you have just produced in SPSS?

In output Viewer, click File, Print, select the bar chart and click OK

In Variable Viewer, open bar chart, click File, Print, OK

In Chad Editor k Descriptive Statistics, print, OK

In Data Editor, open Graphs dialog box, click Save, OK

12. What are does DMFT stand for:

Total mean of tooth and Total prevalence of tooth

Total prevalence of tooth

Decay, Missing, Filling and teeth

Missing Filling. Surface

Decay, Missing Filling, Surface and Total mean of tooth

13. For writing up your synthesis of the literature

To read, reflect (thinking with he title), identify (main themes), categorize by them categorize by sub-themes

To write, read identify reflect

To read, reflects ( thinking with title), categorize by them, categorize by sub-themes

Reference, thinking

Writing, identify and title

14. What the origin of a research question :

Mastering the literature

Being alert to new ideas and technique

Mastering the literature, Being alert to new ideas and technique, Keeping the imagination.

Keeping the imagination

Mastering the literature and being alert to new ideas and technique

15. What's FINER stand for?

Feasible, Interesting, Novel Ethical and Relevant

Favorite,Interesting, Novel, Ethical and Relevant

Feasible, Investigating, Need, Ethical and Relevant

Feasible, Inspariting, Novel, Ethical and Relevant

Feasible, Interesting, Novel, Ethical and Realistic

16. How many style for written the references of research?

17. What are the 5 types for written the references of research?

Book or article of scientific

Thesis

The Internet

Contact person and Journal

All are corrects

18. How many type of the study design?

19. You can choose fonts and font sizes with the___toolbar.

Standard

Formatting

Auto Text

Drawing

20. You can open the Font dialog box by choosing Font from the___manu

Edit

Insert

Format

Tools

21. When a citation includes more than___ authors only the surname of the first author is cited followed by et al:

22. When referencing other works you have cited within the text of the report you should:

State the first and last name of the author

Use the author , date citations method

Use an asterisk and a footnote

Insert the complete citations in parenthesis

23. Which of the following abbreviations can be used in a research report?

DT for dental decay

Sec. For second

Yr. For you

Mo. For mouth

24. Editorial style specifies that____ should be used infrequently or sparingly.

Italics

Abbreviation

Headings

Abbreviation and heading

25. The factor that should determine whether you decide to prepare a research report of you study for a conference or for publication

Whether the study free from flaws

Whether the study important enough to justify presentation or publication

Whether others would be interested the work

All of the above

26. Which of the following is not about the use of language in research reports?

You should choose accurate and clear word that are free from bias.

You should avoid labeling people when ever possible

You should avoid using the term “subject “whenever possible

All of the above are true according to the UHS Guidelines

27. Which of following is not one of the seven major parts to the research reports?

Results

Abstract

Method

Footnote

28. The abstracts should be about how many words?

120

300

29. It is in this section that you fully interpret and evaluate your results.Results

Introduction

Method

Results

Discussion

30. Where do you provide a step-by-step account or what e researcher and participants did during the research study?

Introduction

Abstract

Procedure

Design

31. Select all of the following statements which you believe to be true. An ordinal variable is one for which?

The data are discrete and can take one of many values.

The data are continuous and follow an ordered sequence

The data are categories

The categories of response are ordered

There can only be two categories of response.

32. Select all of the following statements which you believe to be true:?

A sample statistics is a Point estimate of a population parameter.

Random sampling implies a haphazard approach to die dada analysis

For a given data set, the standard deviation is always greater than the standard error of the mean

The inferential process involves drawing conclusions about the sample

All are corrects

33. A total 5000 patients of glaucoma are identified and surveyed by patient interviews regarding family history of glaucoma. Such a study design is called ?

Case series report

Case-control study

Clinical Trail

Cohort study

34. The analytical study where population is the unit of study is?

Cross sectional

Ecological

Case control

Cohort study

35. System Study involves ?

Study of an existing system

Documenting the existing system

Identifying current deficiencies and establishing new goal

All of the above

36. The primary tool used in structured design is a ?

Structure chart

Data-flow diagram

Program flowchart

Module

37. The step-by-step instructions that solve a problem are called __?

An algorithm

A list

A plan

A sequential structure

38. Which of the following is not a factor in the failure of the systems developments projects ?

Size of the company

Inadequate user involvement

Failure of systems integration

Continuation of project that should have been cancelled

39. A problem's____will answer the question, "What information will the computer need to know in order to either print or display the output times?:

Input

Output

Processing

Purpose

40. What practical steps can you take before you actually start your research?

Find out exactly what your institution's requirements are for a dissertation

Make sure you are familiar with the hardware and software you plan to use

Apply for clearance of your project through an ethics committee

All of the above

41. Which of the following refers to research supported by measurable evidence?

Opinion

Empiricism

Speculation

Rationalism

42. Which of the following should be included in a research proposal?

Your academic status and experience

The difficulties you encountered with your previous reading on the topic

Your choice of research methods and reasons for choosing them

All of the above

43. You can manage your time and resources best, by :?

Working out a timetable

Finding out what resources are readily available to you

Calculating a budget for likely expenditure

All of the above

44. Which of the following methods would you use to enter data on gender into SPSS so you could conduct statistical analyses?

Type male or female into the appropriate column of the data view

Type M into the appropriate column for male participants and F for female participants

Enter data for male participants into SPSS first, then data for female participants second

Enter the data from male and female participants into separate data sets

Numerically code male and female with different numbers

45. You have installed SPSS on your personal computer. In which of the following places will you ALWAYS find the SPSS icon?

In the Programs menu

On A CD room

On the desktop

On a floppy disk

On your USB stick

46. You select File from the across the top SPSS Data Editor. The three dots after procedures of the save as... Mean which of the following?

A further menu will appear when this option is chosen

A dialogue box will open when this option is chosen

There will be tare delay after selecting this option while the computer performs the procedure

This option cannot be chosen at present

There are three further steps after selecting this option

47. How can you tell if your research questions are really good?

If they guide your literature search

If they are linked together to help you construct a coherent argument

If they force you to narrow the scope of your research

All of the above

48. A simple random sample is one in which:?

From a random starting point, every nth unit from the sampling frame is selected

A non-probability strategy is used, making the results difficult to generalize

The researcher has a certain quota of respondents to fill for various social groups

Every unit the population has an equal chance of being selected

49. Research method is applicable in all of the following fields, EXCEPT ?

Health care

Religion

Business

Government officer

50. All of the following are true statements about action research, EXCEPT?

Data are systematically analyzed

Data are collected systematically

Results are generalizable

Results are used to improve practice

51.How can you tell if your research questions are really good?

If they guide your literature search

If they are linked together to help you construct a coherent argument

If they to the scope of your research narrow the scope of your research

All of the above

52. The Means... Procedure for computing the score of each of several groups is found in?

Mean The Reports menu

The Compare Means menu

The Tables menu

The Descriptive Statistics menu

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