Posted: August 1st, 2023

Recruit subjects based on exposure or disease status

Recruit subjects based on exposure or
disease status
Recruit subjects based on exposure or disease status
Read the “Case” below and answer the questions that follow. Use
of external resources (e.g. published articles, online articles,
textbook, etc) to support your answers is highly encouraged.
Please include a cover page (per Help write my thesis – APA style) and cite your
Over the past few years, a psychotherapist who treats people
aged 50 years or over in a long-term care facility has noticed that
depressed patients appear to have suffered more instances of
childhood trauma than non-depressed patients. The
psychotherapist wants to formally investigate this matter and
comes to you to help design an inexpensive study using only the
residents of the long-term care facility (all of whom are males or
females aged 50 year or over). Using the following questions as a
guide, what recommendations would you give to the
psychotherapist. Please use MS Word format and be sure to
address all questions. Please use an essay format rather than
simply numbering your answers. [Please use between 350 to 600
words in total].
How would you define the ‘exposed/unexposed’ groups?
How would you measure exposure (assess whether study
subjects are exposed or unexposed)?
How would you define the diseased/non-diseased groups?

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