Practice Test: Smoking Behaviour Articles and Dataset
Practice test on the indexed smoking-behaviour articles and dataset, covering study aims, design, variables, and methodological interpretation.
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1 What was the main aim of Beard et al. (2017)?
- To test a smoking cessation treatment in a clinical trial
- To estimate whether monthly changes in smoking-related measures were associated with monthly changes in alcohol-related measures in England
- To compare smoking rates across several European countries at one time point
- To study only youth smoking initiation
The paper focused on population-level associations over time between smoking-related and alcohol-related behaviours in England.
2 Which design best describes the data used in Beard et al. (2017)?
- Single laboratory experiment
- Monthly repeated cross-sectional household surveys
- Case-control study
- Randomized controlled trial
The study used monthly household face-to-face surveys of representative adult samples, making it repeated cross-sectional.
3 Approximately how many adults were surveyed each month in Beard et al. (2017)?
The retrieved material describes representative monthly samples of about 1,700 adults in England.
4 What time period did Beard et al. (2017) analyse?
- April 2012 to June 2014
- April 2014 to June 2016
- January 2015 to December 2016
- June 2014 to April 2017
The paper states that data were used from April 2014 to June 2016.
5 Which of the following were smoking-related variables in Beard et al. (2017)? Select all that apply.
Select all that apply
- Smoking prevalence
- Motivation to quit smoking
- Attempts to stop smoking
- Lung function test results
The article focused on prevalence, motivation, and attempts related to smoking; lung function testing was not one of the listed focal variables.
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