Study Design
Before you can begin your study, you must write a proposal to secure funding for the project. In the proposal, you must describe how a screening program would fit into the prevention activities of the EDOH.
1. A screening program for Susser Syndrome would fall under what type of prevention activity?
As luck would have it, your study is funded by a generous grant from DoseEmAll Pharmaceuticals . You plan to recruit 1000 subjects with no symptoms of Susser Syndrome. Since you want to ensure that enough individuals in your study will develop Susser Syndrome, you decide to recruit workers from Glop Industries , where an agent suspected to cause Susser Syndrome is manufactured. The EDOH has conducted a study which demonstrated a relationship between exposure to chemicals involved in the production of Superclean and a higher risk of Susser Syndrome.
At enrollment, you collect a blood sample from each participating subject to perform the new SussStat test. One year later, you have each subject return to undergo thorough clinical assessment for SS, using the gold standard of diagnosis set by the EDOH .