Longitudinal study

What are the five steps of the scientific method? 1.)Begin with curiosity: BY “on the basis of theory, prior research, or personal observation, pose a question.” 2.)Develop a hypothesis: once you have the question, form it into a hypothesis, a prognosis would be evaluated 3.)Test the hypothesis: Design and lead research to accumulate experimental proof 4.)Analyze the evidence gathered in the research: figured out if the theory was right or not 5.)Report the results: share information,…

successful child. Raising a successful child is not easy and usually it is more genetics or the parents’ success that influences their own child’s success. The first research study that focuses on child success is based on how a Mothers’ expectations for their child influence their education and occupational attainment. In this study, the researchers come to find that Mothers’ have more of an impact on their daughters rather than their sons. Eirini Flouri and…

The essence of this study is to determine the consequences that are faced developmentally in children that are exposed to maltreatment during early development. Data will be collected from a Longitudinal Study that will be conducted. The participants of the study will be randomly chosen from numerous settings in the state of Philadelphia which will include those in public and private schools, day care and nursery programs, child welfare abuse and protective service programs as well as Head start…

include Cristina Borra, Maria Iacovou, and Almudena Sevilla. The study aimed to identify the causal effect of breastfeeding on postpartum depression. This studies utilizes the Avon Longitudinal study Study of Parents and Children, and includes a sample of 14,000 British women and children. The postpartum assessments that were gathered for data were done at 8 weeks after delivery, in addition to 8, 21, and 32 months after delivery. The study uses multivariate linear and logistic regressions and…

Alcohol-Related Behaviors in Mid- to Late Adolescence in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, supported my hypothesis and also went along with my topic. My hypothesis was that I believe that adolescents from low income families have a higher risk of experimenting with drugs and alcohol. This article supported that by giving information about how low socioeconomic status predicts alcohol-related behavioral problems. This studies major research question is: Does SES impact…

we are confronted here with a multivariate longitudinal observational study, that is, a number of different responses are measured repeatedly over time on a particular patient. The data in this study, is divided into two sets: the consumption data set which consist mainly of the response variables, and the patient data set, which is made up entirely of the explanatory variables. We have data on individual health care spending in the last year of life of 46,581 patients (aged 45 years and…

over at any moment, has been found to increase your lifespan according to a longitudinal study published on Monday. Going against the common knowledge that a moderate amount of exercise every day bestows long life, researchers from the University of Sydney and James Cook University found that vigorous exercise decreases your risk of death by as much as 13 percent, publishing their findings in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study tracked 204,000 participants age 45 and up for six and a half years,…

There is an overwhelming large number of obese people living in the United States, particularly in the State of West Virginia. The need for a weight loss study to be conducted in this state is so needed. West Virginia has the second largest obesity population. According to the Robert Wood Foundation Obesity Report of (2015), “West Virginia 's adult obesity rate is currently 35.7 percent, up from 23.9 percent in 2000 and from 13.7 percent in 1990”. Obesity increases the risks for developing…

In psychological studies, the sample of participants is often comprised of college students completing a required for their introduction to psychology course. The point during the semester when the student completes the required studies is up to the student, and some fulfill the requirement quickly, while others wait until closer to the end of the term. The study conducted by Harber and colleagues investigated whether differences in time perspective, the process in which a person automatically…

Cross sectional and longitudinal study designs, like many other designs, trade-off biases and handle measurement error quite differently (“cross-sectional vs. longitudinal studies | Institute for Work & Health,” n.d.). Cross-sectional designs that use the method of collecting and comparing data from multiple cohorts of different ages at the same point of time. An example would be including 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 year olds to measure the effect of age on smoking. They were all recruited at the…