Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Metabolic Equivalent, Longitudinal Study, Cohort Study

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1070A/B
• Professor: Harry Prapavessis

Document Summary

Using physical activity to change health behaviours (ex. What role does physical activity play in smoking. Distribution- relates to the frequency and patterns of disease occurrence in a population. Incident/occurrence- rate of new disease or health events. Take advantage of behaviours that occur naturally in our environment (drinking) Understand the effect of that one specific disease outcomes. E. g. , it would be unethical to randomize a group of individuals to either a drinking or non- drinking condition, wait 10 years and then see how much death and disease, drinking causes. Often the group of individuals will have some disease, in which case the question will be directed at the cause of their disease. Case-control studies select a set of patients with a defining characteristic: a diagnosed disease (for example, women with breast cancer). The characteristics of these are compared with a control group (often similar in age, sex, and background) who do not have the disease.