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PUB 540 Topic 7 DQ 2 Identify a health issue of your choice, such as an infectious disease, chronic disease or health issue prevalent in a specific target population
PUB 540 Topic 7 DQ 2 Identify a health issue of your choice, such as an infectious disease, chronic disease or health issue prevalent in a specific target population
Topic 7 DQ 2
Jun 2-6, 2022
Identify a health issue of your choice, such as an infectious disease (e.g., HIV, COVID-19, STD, measles), chronic disease (e.g., diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, specific cancer type, pulmonary disease) or health issue (e.g., drug abuse, domestic violence, suicide) prevalent in a specific target population (e.g., African American Women, Hispanic Men, Native Americans, Transgender Teens). Propose a study based on the methods you have learned thus far that are designed to investigate an association and the methods you would apply. Justify your choice of design. Discuss and define the risk factor or exposure that is being assessed, the method of comparison that is used, and the setting or situation (community, school, workplace, etc.) your study would look to address. Include in your proposal the concepts of causal inference, measures of association, and whether you will use an experimental or observational study design.
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JT
Jun 8, 2022, 11:28 PM
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My study examines the incidence of risk factors among women giving birth in the United States in the year 2019, primarily African American Women. Among the risk factors associated with Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy, according to Wheelers et al. (2022), being African American is a risk factor for the hypertensive disorder of preeclampsia. This was a retrospective cohort study that used The National Center for Health Statistics birth certificate data to determine the number of pregnant women with moderate to high risk factors. In 2019 there were 3, 695,019 births, 528,778 with no risk and 169, 540 with 1 or more high risk factors, and 2,996,701 with 1 or more moderate risk factors in thre community. Aside from being African American other risk factors included: Multifetal gestation and low socioeconomic status were the two most common factors. Low socioeconomic status had an incidence of 46.9% in the moderate risk factor category and multifetal gestation had an incidence of 3.5% in the high-risk factor for developing preeclampsia. in addition to multifetal gestation, was pregestational diabetes and chronic hypertension. Preeclampsia is the leading cause for maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality due to the fact is causes growth restriction of the fetus, increases the chances of caesarian delivery, raises the risk of long-term maternal cardiovascular health issues. in this study, not only did the clinicians want to determine the incidence of preeclampsia, but they also sought to determine whether or not low dose aspirin could decrease the risk of preeclampsia in women with two or more associated risk factors.
In using Medicaid as a payer and participation in the women Infant program as markers for low-economic status, they also determined that race measures an individuals lived experience with racism.
This study may have met in answering the question related to incidence of preeclampsia and the risk factors that are associated with it both high-risk and moderate risk but did not answer the question as to the association of African American women having a higher incidence. Instead, extrapolated low-socioeconomic with possibly being African American. Yes, African American have higher incidence of diabetes and chronic hypertension, but that association with what was presented in this article was weak. On the other hand, did low dose aspirin significantly decrease preeclampsia with there known risk factors? Yes it did , as the main measure was to examine prevalence of these risk factor alone or in combination. The 2021 guidelines for moderate and high-risk factors for preeclampsia would benefit from a low dose aspirin regimen for those that met criteria for inclusion. Low dose aspirin is most effective if started by 16 weeks of pregnancy. Of course due to this being a cohort study, it is observational. So, the study design was to observe how effective low dose aspirin would be in decreasing the preeclampsia if the participant was determined to fir criteria according to their risk factors.
References PUB 540 Topic 7 DQ 2 Identify a health issue of your choice, such as an infectious disease, chronic disease or health issue prevalent in a specific target population
Wheeler, S. M., Myers, S. O., Swamy, G. K., & Myers, E. R. (2022). Estimated Prevalence of Risk Factors for Preeclampsia Among Individuals Giving Birth in the US in 2019. JAMA Network Open, 5(1), e2142343. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.42343
BC
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Jun 8, 2022, 11:48 AM
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My choice of study of choice in the debilitating disease of diabetes’s within the African American Community. Studies have shown that 4.9 million African American adults or 18.7% of all African Americans who are twenty years or older have diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes ( Spanakis and Golden, 2013). Data proves that biological risk factors are primarily responsible for high risk of diabetic diagnosis in the African American Community, but studies also suggest that making positive changes in known risk factors can aid in the reduction of racial health disparity for developing diabetes.
The study I would propose is a retrospective cohort study to depict the association of diabetes mellitus prevalence among the African American Community in southern regions. The study would place emphasis on population demographics and eating habitats. I determined that a cohort study would be the most effective, cost efficient and provide informative because the targeted population share similar socioeconomic statutes, predispose familiar genes and similar living conditions/ habitats. Diabetes’s mellitus is common in the African American Community and more prevalent in individuals with low socioeconomic status, limited access to healthcare, unhealthy eating habitats, and sedimentary lifestyles. Therefore, record review such as medical records containing diagnoses, family history and pharmacologic treatment would be relevant data. Within the geographic areas health departments, and community clinics can provide relative updated data on the population size who has or has had a diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus who are of African American decent. Once the individuals are identified we can use the information to perform a trace history to determine the pertinent history and evaluate social and economic status. Simply the exposure is identified through self-reporting data. Outcomes will be determined by hospital admissions, increase in commodity of disease (based on affected organs/ end organ damage), hemoglobin A1C and increase in medications or dosage levels for treatment. The above proposed cohort study will be mainly observational since the data obtained will be obtained from medical records.
Through this method of research participants exposure and outcomes are not manipulated. Through the use of data we identify risk factors, access to care, and the problematic issues that can lead to increase disparities in healthcare as it relates to diabetic care in the African American communities. Using the A1c Criteria can lead to pre-diagnosis and aid to prevent the increase or rises in diabetic patients (Kharroubi and Darwish, 2015).
Reference: PUB 540 Topic 7 DQ 2 Identify a health issue of your choice, such as an infectious disease, chronic disease or health issue prevalent in a specific target population
Kharroubi, A. T., & Darwish, H. M. (2015). Diabetes mellitus: The epidemic of the century. World journal of diabetes, 6(6), 850–867. https://doi.org/10.4239/wjd.v6.i6.850ence
Song, J. W., & Chung, K. C. (2010). Observational studies: cohort and case-control studies. Plastic and reconstructive surgery, 126(6), 2234–2242. https://doi.org/10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181f44abc
Spanakis, E. K., & Golden, S. H. (2013). Race/ethnic difference in diabetes and diabetic complications. Current diabetes reports, 13(6), 814–823. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-013-0421-9
PUB 540 Topic 7 DQ 2 Identify a health issue of your choice, such as an infectious disease, chronic disease or health issue prevalent in a specific target population Grading Rubric Guidelines
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