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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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The Executive Functions in Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review of Neuropsychological Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies [PDF]
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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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.
Zhenshun Cheng, Xiaofeng Wang
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Psychiatric Disorders and Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence-A Systematic Review of Cross-Sectional Studies. [PDF]
Children (Basel), 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.
Kokka I, Mourikis I, Bacopoulou F.
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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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Obtaining adjusted prevalence ratios from logistic regression model in cross-sectional studies [PDF]
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2014 In the last decades, it has been discussed the use of epidemiological prevalence ratio (PR) rather than odds ratio as a measure of association to be estimated in cross-sectional studies.
Bastos, Leonardo Soares +2 more
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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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American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 2014 Across-sectional study is an observational study in which the exposure and the outcome are determined at the same time point for each study participant. Cross-sectional studies comprise the simplest individual-level observational study design and are usually relatively inexpensive and easy to conduct compared with case-control or cohort studies.
N. Pandis
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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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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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