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Cohort study, the Glossary

A cohort study is a particular form of longitudinal study that samples a cohort (a group of people who share a defining characteristic, typically those who experienced a common event in a selected period, such as birth or graduation), performing a cross-section at intervals through time.^[1]

46 relations: Attrition (research), Birth to Twenty, British birth cohort studies, British Doctors Study, British Household Panel Survey, Caerphilly Heart Disease Study, Case–control study, Clinical trial, Cohort (statistics), Cohort analysis, Community of position, Confounding, Cross-sectional data, Dependent and independent variables, Dunedin, Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, Epidemiology, Framingham Heart Study, Grant Study, Hierarchy of evidence, Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, International Journal of Epidemiology, Longitudinal study, Lothian birth-cohort studies, Medicine, Millennium Cohort Study (United States), National Child Development Study, Nelson Mandela, Nested case–control study, Nurses' Health Study, Nursing, Oxford University Press, Panel analysis, Panel data, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Pharmacy, Prospective cohort study, Psychological research, Randomized controlled trial, Retrospective cohort study, Social science, Socio-Economic Panel, Statistical significance, Statistics, Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, Whitehall Study.
Cohort study methods
Nursing research

Attrition (research)

In science, attrition are ratios regarding the loss of participants during an experiment.

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Birth to Twenty

Birth to Twenty (BT20) is Africa's largest and longest running study of child and adolescent health and development.

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British birth cohort studies

Birth cohort studies in Britain are four long-term medical and social studies, carried out over the lives of a group of participants, from birth. Cohort study and British birth cohort studies are cohort studies.

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British Doctors Study

The British Doctors' Study was a prospective cohort study which ran from 1951 to 2001, and in 1956 provided convincing statistical evidence that tobacco smoking increases risk of lung cancer. Cohort study and British Doctors Study are cohort studies.

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British Household Panel Survey

The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), carried out at the Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of Essex, is a survey for social and economic research.

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Caerphilly Heart Disease Study

The Caerphilly Heart Disease Study, also known as the Caerphilly Prospective Study (CaPS), is an epidemiological prospective cohort, set up in 1979 in a representative population sample drawn from Caerphilly, a typical small town in South Wales, UK. Cohort study and Caerphilly Heart Disease Study are cohort studies.

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Case–control study

A case–control study (also known as case–referent study) is a type of observational study in which two existing groups differing in outcome are identified and compared on the basis of some supposed causal attribute. Cohort study and case–control study are epidemiology and Nursing research.

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Clinical trial

Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel vaccines, drugs, dietary choices, dietary supplements, and medical devices) and known interventions that warrant further study and comparison.

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Cohort (statistics)

In statistics, epidemiology, marketing and demography, a cohort is a group of subjects who share a defining characteristic (typically subjects who experienced a common event in a selected time period, such as birth or graduation).

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Cohort analysis

Cohort analysis is a kind of behavioral analytics that breaks the data in a data set into related groups before analysis.

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A community of position is distinguished from a community of practice in that it tends to be more personally focused.

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Confounding

In causal inference, a confounder is a variable that influences both the dependent variable and independent variable, causing a spurious association.

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Cross-sectional data

In statistics and econometrics, cross-sectional data is a type of data collected by observing many subjects (such as individuals, firms, countries, or regions) at a single point or period of time.

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Dependent and independent variables

A variable is considered dependent if it depends on an independent variable.

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Dunedin

Dunedin (Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region.

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Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study

The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (also known as the Dunedin Study) is a detailed study of human health, development and behaviour. Cohort study and Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study are cohort studies.

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Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population.

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Framingham Heart Study

The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study of residents of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts. Cohort study and Framingham Heart Study are cohort studies.

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Grant Study

The Grant Study is an -year continuing longitudinal study from the Study of Adult Development at Harvard Medical School, started in 1938. Cohort study and Grant Study are cohort studies.

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Hierarchy of evidence

A hierarchy of evidence, comprising levels of evidence (LOEs), that is, evidence levels (ELs), is a heuristic used to rank the relative strength of results obtained from experimental research, especially medical research. Cohort study and hierarchy of evidence are research.

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Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey

The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is an Australian household-based panel study which began in 2001.

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International Journal of Epidemiology

The International Journal of Epidemiology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in epidemiology.

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Longitudinal study

A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people) over long periods of time (i.e., uses longitudinal data). Cohort study and longitudinal study are cohort study methods and Nursing research.

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Lothian birth-cohort studies

The Lothian birth-cohort studies are two ongoing cohort studies which primarily involve research into how childhood intelligence relates to intelligence and health in old age. Cohort study and Lothian birth-cohort studies are cohort studies.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.

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Millennium Cohort Study (United States)

The Millennium Cohort Study is an ongoing longitudinal cohort study headquartered at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, California and designed to evaluate any long-term health effects of military service, including deployments. Cohort study and Millennium Cohort Study (United States) are cohort studies.

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National Child Development Study

The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing, multi-disciplinary longitudinal study which follows the lives of 17,415 people born in England, Scotland and Wales from 17,205 women during the week of 3–9 March 1958. Cohort study and National Child Development Study are cohort studies.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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Nested case–control study

A nested case–control (NCC) study is a variation of a case–control study in which cases and controls are drawn from the population in a fully enumerated cohort. Cohort study and nested case–control study are cohort study methods and Nursing research.

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Nurses' Health Study

The Nurses Health Study is a series of prospective studies that examine epidemiology and the long-term effects of nutrition, hormones, environment, and nurses' work-life on health and disease development. Cohort study and nurses' Health Study are cohort studies.

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Nursing

Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence".

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Panel analysis

Panel (data) analysis is a statistical method, widely used in social science, epidemiology, and econometrics to analyze two-dimensional (typically cross sectional and longitudinal) panel data.

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Panel data

In statistics and econometrics, panel data and longitudinal data are both multi-dimensional data involving measurements over time.

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Panel Study of Income Dynamics

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a longitudinal panel survey of American families, conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.

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Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines.

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Prospective cohort study

A prospective cohort study is a longitudinal cohort study that follows over time a group of similar individuals (cohorts) who differ with respect to certain factors under study to determine how these factors affect rates of a certain outcome. Cohort study and prospective cohort study are cohort study methods.

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Psychological research

Psychological research refers to research that psychologists conduct for systematic study and for analysis of the experiences and behaviors of individuals or groups. Cohort study and Psychological research are research.

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Randomized controlled trial

A randomized controlled trial (or randomized control trial; RCT) is a form of scientific experiment used to control factors not under direct experimental control.

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Retrospective cohort study

A retrospective cohort study, also called a historic cohort study, is a longitudinal cohort study used in medical and psychological research. Cohort study and retrospective cohort study are cohort study methods and Nursing research.

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Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

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Socio-Economic Panel

The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, for Sozio-oekonomisches Panel) is a longitudinal panel dataset of the population in Germany. Cohort study and Socio-Economic Panel are cohort studies.

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Statistical significance

In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when a result at least as "extreme" would be very infrequent if the null hypothesis were true.

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Statistics

Statistics (from German: Statistik, "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.

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Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study

Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), is one of the largest panel survey in the world, supporting social and economic research. Cohort study and Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study are cohort studies.

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Whitehall Study

The Whitehall Studies investigated social determinants of health, specifically the cardiovascular disease prevalence and mortality rates among British civil servants. Cohort study and Whitehall Study are cohort studies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohort_study

Also known as Cohort Study (Statistics), Cohort studies, Panel survey, Risk time.

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Cohort study methods

Nursing research

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