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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana, 2021 Cross-sectional studies are epidemiological design which can be considered as descriptive or analytical designs depending on the general objective. This is a quickly and economical design and allows to calculate the prevalence of a condition.
Aleksandar Cvetković Vega +4 more
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Cross-Sectional Studies: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Recommendations. [PDF]
Chest, 2020 Cross-sectional studies are observational studies that analyze data from a population at a single point in time. They are often used to measure the prevalence of health outcomes, understand determinants of health, and describe features of a population.
Xiaofeng Wang, Zhenshun Cheng
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Cross‐sectional studies – what are they good for? [PDF]
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2018 AbstractCross‐sectional studies serve many purposes, and the cross‐sectional design is the most relevant design when assessing the prevalence of disease, attitudes and knowledge among patients and health personnel, in validation studies comparing, for example, different measurement instruments, and in reliability studies.
U. Kesmodel
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Methodology series module 3: Cross-sectional studies
Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2016 Cross-sectional study design is a type of observational study design. In a cross-sectional study, the investigator measures the outcome and the exposures in the study participants at the same time.
Maninder Singh Setia
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Study design III: Cross-sectional studies [PDF]
Evidence-Based Dentistry, 2006 In this series, I previously gave an overview of the main types of study design and the techniques used to minimise biased results. Here, I describe cross-sectional studies, their uses, advantages and limitations.
K. Levin
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Background: The increasing incidence of people affected by overweight or obesity is a significant health problem. The knowledge of the factors which influences the inappropriate eating behaviors causing excessive body fat is an essential goal for the ...
Francesca Favieri +2 more
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The relationships between workload, stress, motivation and performance of nurses' working in the emergency department of public hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
Nursing and Midwifery Studies, 2023 Background: Pandemic conditions increase nurses' workload, trigger stress, decrease motivation, and influence nurses' performance.Objectives: This study analyzed the relationships between workload, stress, motivation, and performance of nurses working in
Rahmad Gurusinga +2 more
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Children, 2023 Obesity and psychiatric disorders have high prevalence and are both considered major health problems. Within the last decades, the rates of obesity have risen over 6%, while the prevalence of psychiatric disorders is over 12% for children and adolescents.
Ioulia Kokka +2 more
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Prevalence of multiple sclerosis in key cities of Brazil. A study in Joinville, Southern Brazil [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2021 Background: The Brazilian Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (BCTRIMS) has launched an initiative to determine the prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Brazil, based on key cities deemed representative of their regions in ...
Marcus Vinícius Magno Gonçalves +11 more
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Health Literacy Among University Students: A Systematic Review of Cross-Sectional Studies
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Objective The aim of this systematic review was to provide an overview of cross-sectional studies that examined health literacy among university students and to identify possible determinants related to health literacy.
Lucas Kühn +6 more
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