Question

A group of researchers wants to evaluate the impact of a smoking cessation intervention on 50 cardiac patients at the outpatient clinic at a hospital, and compare that to another 50 cardiac patients from another hospital who did not receive the smoking cessation intervention.

Identify one possible research design and justify your choice. Regarding the statement above.

Answer 1

Researchers want to evaluate the impact of smoking cessation intervention on the cardiac patient, here the researchers evaluate on 100 patients in which 50 have taken intervention and 50 who did not receive any smoking cessation intervention.

Here the researcher is doing a cohort study, a cohort study is a longitudinal study that compares two groups of people for a period of time to analyze exposure and effect. In this case, the researcher compares the effect of smoking cessation intervention on the patient with heart disease.

In a cohort study, the researcher observes the effect of exposure naturally without interfering with anything, at last, compares the results of both groups.

Answer- A cohort study