How did everyone answer that Epidemiology question. I couldn't remember the exact features or whatever, but I did talk about observing/ analysing the diet, environment and genetics of those who had the disease and comparing to those who didn't have it. I elaborated on each aspect, but would this be ok to get atleast a 1-2/4
yeah. I'm pretty sure that would get you 1-2 marks.
I wrote about having a descriptive study - which is basically researching the disease itself (finding out the ages of people affected, the location/time period of affected people, their lifestyles, etc. ensuring that data was obtained from a
large sample size on a
variety of possible risk factors)
Then I talked about analysing the information and carrying out an analytical study (what you did) about having two identical groups of people (with similar lifestyles, ages, etc.). However, one group was exposed to the potential causative factor and the other group wasn't (
control). This is carried over a
prolonged period of time and then the results are compared to see whether that particular factor is the potential cause of the non-infectious disease or not. If no results, then
repetition of the study is carried out on a different possible causative factor.