A nurse designs a project to investigate the use of smokeless tobacco of male graduates from a local high school and the incidence of oral cancer ten years later. This represents which type of study?
Prospective.Explanation: Looks forward to find a causal relationship.
The type of study the nurse is designing is a “cohort study”. In a cohort study, a group of people (graduates from a local high school who use smokeless tobacco, in this case) are followed over time to see if they develop a particular health outcome (in this case, oral cancer). The nurse will be comparing the incidence of oral cancer among the group of smokeless tobacco users to the incidence of oral cancer among a group of non-smokeless tobacco users from the same population. By comparing the two groups, any association between smokeless tobacco use and oral cancer can be identified.
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