ADMS 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cage Questionnaire, Alcoholism

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26 Feb 2016

School

York University

Department

Administrative Studies

Course

ADMS 2610

Professor

Vas.Valoo

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Item responses on the cage are scored 0 or 1, with a higher score an indication of alcohol problems. A total score of 2 or greater is considered clinically significant. Developed by dr. john ewing, founding director of the bowles center for alcohol studies, University of north carolina at cahpel hill, cage is an internationally used assessment instrument for identifying alcoholics. It is particularly popular with primary care givers. The cage questions can be used in the clinical setting using informal phrasing. It has been demonstrated that they are most effective when used as part of a general health history and should. Not be preceded by questions about how much or how frequently the patient drinks (see. Alcoholism: the keys to the cage by dl steinweg and h worth; american journal of medicine. The exact wording that can be used in research studies can be found in: ja ewing detecting. Alcoholism: the cage questionaire jama 252: 1905-1907, 1984.

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You use water
then send it down the drain to the reclamation plant, which treats then discharges the water to a local river.

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As you move into the workforce, your new paycheck will have tax deductions that help pay for these public health needs. At the same time, you might be one of the rising leaders in the water industry. How clean do you want your tap water and your local ecological environment? At what cost?

The Question is What agency established these standards or treatment goals?

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National Drinking Water Standards

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The tables list many constituents. Pay attention to the groupings provided by EPA, yet consider other groupings such as

ï· limit levels;

ï· type of material;

ï· or by type of problem caused

Additional resource: the bottom of the webpage provides a section titled âUnregulated Contaminantsâ. This is an introduction to the process of considering whether a compound should be added to the drinking water regulations. Find one or more current articles on the issues associated with one compound on the Unregulated Contaminants list.

4 According to a commercial, drinking water that has been blessed by Bill Nye the Science Guy improves your test scores. You think this is complete nonsense and want to disprove it. So you set up an experiment.

4a Would this be an observational or an empirical study?

4b To test it, for a total of 10 weeks, you take one test every week. Alternating weeks, you will drink regular water (control) and blessed water (treatment). How many replicas will you have?

4c What would be your null-hypothesis?

4d What would be your alternative hypothesis?

4e Name 3 possible confounding factors.

4f What is your independent variable?

4g Wat is your dependent variable?

4hs You set your a-level as always at 0.05, and do a statistical analysis to see if there is a difference in test scores between the two groups. The statistical analysis result is p=0.06 Is there a significant difference in test scores? Yes / No / Donât know

4i Based on the statistical analysis outcomes, does drinking blessed water improve test results? Yes / No / Donât know

4j 10 points A placebo effect is an improvement in a personâs perceived health from taking a non-active ingredient, presumably because of the belief that they are receiving a treatment helps that person to feel better. Your mind is a powerful thing and certainly can influence your health in real ways, so a placebo effect would include real improvements that come from âmind over matterâ as well as simple changes in perception. How can you avoid the placebo effect in this study?

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HOMEWORK: YOU ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF: INEFFICIENT/BAD/WORTHLESS/USE OF FUNDS IN COMPANIES.

1. If you take your co-workers to dinner and then take them out to clubs after, and pay with the company card.

2. If you are the manager of a company and are required to recruit someone for a new job position. You end up hiring your friend because you know they are in need of a job but you realize he is not doing his job well. (So you are wasting money by giving him a salary).

3. Pepsi spends copious amounts of money on their advertising campaigns, but do you see anyone drinking Pepsi? Whether they have advertisements or not, the majority of people in some countries go for Coca-Cola. There must be a different way to advertise and gain market share.

ADMS 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cage Questionnaire, Alcoholism

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