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  • Differentiate between prospective and retrospective cohort studies.
  • Illustrate when each of these cohort studies should be used in research and address the strengths and weaknesses of them both.

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Running head: PROSPECTIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDIES

Prospective and Retrospective Cohort Studies
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PROSPECTIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDIES

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Prospective and Retrospective Cohort Studies
Prospective
Prospective cohort studies involve a researcher recruiting subjects/participants,
designing the study and gathering the baseline exposure data before any of the subjects depict
the outcome of interest. The researcher then makes sure to follow-up on the participants over
long periods of time to observe the development of the outcome of interest (Euser, Zoccali,
Jager, & Dekker, 2009). The group of subjects is similar (cohort) but differ under the factors
in the study. For example, a study on college s...


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