Based on the article attached, write an epidemiological critique in essay format. You must address all the questions that are listed below and make it clear to what question you are answering. Questions: 1) Why did the articles conduct this study? 2) What do we know about the topic? 3) What don’t we know about the topic (what gap are the authors trying to fill)? 4) What type of study design is this? Identify three design elements of the study 5) Identify the outcome and exposure under investigation. How were they defined 6) What measure of occurrence did the authors use to present their findings? 7) Choose a measure of occurrence that is important to the study’s main findings and interpret it. 8) Describe how the outcome and exposure were measured. 9) Describe: 1) any potential measurement problems for the exposure, and 2) how this may have affected the results 10) Describe: 1) any potential measurement problems for the outcome, and 2) how this may have affected the results 11) Describe presence or absence of design and/or execution problems with the study, such as confounding and selection bias, including how they may have affected the accuracy of the estimate of association between exposure and disease and/or the interpretation of the study. 12) Overall give an assessment of the validity of any potential causal inferences that could be made from the associations in this study. Rubric is as follows: ric: 1) Why did the articles conduct this study? 5pts 2) What do we know about the topic? 5pts 3) What don’t we know about the topic (what gap are the authors trying to fill)? 5pts 4) What type of study design is this? Identify three design elements of the study 10pts 5) Identify the outcome and exposure under investigation. How were they defined 10pts 6) What measure of occurrence did the authors use to present their findings? 5pts 7) Choose a measure of occurrence that is important to the study’s main findings and interpret it. 8) Describe how the outcome and exposure were measured. 10pts 9) Describe: 1) any potential measurement problems for the exposure, and 2) how this may have affected the results 5pts 10) Describe: 1) any potential measurement problems for the outcome, and 2) how this may have affected the results 5pts 11) Describe presence or absence of design and/or execution problems with the study, such as confounding and selection bias, including how they may have affected the accuracy of the estimate of association between exposure and disease and/or the interpretation of the study.
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