A Review of Some Individual and Community - Level Effect Size Indices for The Study of Risk Factors for Child and Adolescent Development  

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Scott, Keith G. ; Mason, Craig A. ; Chapman, Derek A. ; Shihfen Tu

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Educational and Psychological Measurement vol. 60 no. 3 (2000), page 385-410.
Topik: RISK FACTORS; psychological tests; child development; epidemiology
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This article discusses the computation and application of various epidemiological measures of effect in educational and developmental research. Specificaly, epidemiology provider a potentially important perspective for studies identifying risk factors for healthy child development. For example, it allows for the examination of both individual - level risk (the impact of risk factors onindividuals experiencing them) and community - level risk (the impact of risk factors on the overall number of cases within a population). In terms of individual - level risk, issues related to the use and interpretation of the risk - ratio, the odds - ratio and the logistic regression odds - ratio are reviewed. In addition, community - level measures of effect, such as the population - attributable fraction percentage, are examined. Implications of the design methodology (cohort study, case - control study, or representative study) on the choice and use of these measures of effect are discussed. Data from a large - scale ongoing project in developmental epidemiology are presented throughout the article for illustrative purposes.

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