A nurse practitioner is working in a crowded neighborhood where the population is primarily immigrants from China. The nurse has designed a research study to follow children from kindergarten to the age of 25.
She is going to be looking at their diet, successful progression in school, health practices, and development of disease, to name a few items. This type of research is known as
A)
cohort study.
B)
cross-sectional study.
C)
case-control study.
D)
epidemiological study.
Question 2
A geriatric clinical nurse educator is teaching the other members of the health care team about the incidence, prevalence, and course of depression among older adults.
Which of the following statements is most likely to appear in the physician's teaching?
A)
Even though suicide rates are lower among older adults than younger adults, depression needs to be diagnosed and treated early.
B)
Though they are certainly not synonymous, depression can be an indicator of dementia.
C)
Many older adults lack the symptoms of sleep disturbances and lack of concentration that suggest depression in younger adults.
D)
Bronchodilators and antiplatelet medications have been correlated with depression in the elderly.
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