This Assignment should be written as a 3- to 5 page scholarly paper excluding the title page and references (do not just provide an outline). You are expected to follow APA form and style, including the correct use of in-text citations and references.
The following is an example of a content outline for this paper. While you are not required to follow this outline exactly, all of the following content should be included in some way in the scholarly paper:

Introduction

One paragraph briefly restating the purpose and focus of the study

Information biases

Describe the potential information biases in your study
Discuss how information bias will be handled or minimized in the study

Research questions and hypotheses

Restate the study’s research questions along with their associated hypotheses

Statistical analysis plans

Describe data cleaning and screening procedures for the initial dataset
Discuss your plans for initial descriptive analyses and any other preliminary statistics that may be appropriate (e.g., bivariate analyses to assess potential confounders, collinearity analyses)

For each research question/hypothesis:

Identify the statistical test that will be used to test the association
Describe which variables will be included in the analysis and why
Identify the measures of association, parameter estimates, or other results, and describe how they will be interpreted
Include a discussion of additional procedures as appropriate (e.g., Bonferroni corrections, goodness-of-fit tests, tests for interaction)
Scholar-Practitioner Project Assignment #1
Scholar-Practitioner Project Assignment #1
Student: Kelvin Gibson
PUBH 8520: Advanced Epidemiology Methods
WALDEN UNIVERSITY
Instructor: Dr. Hebatullah Tawfik
March 01, 2019
Scholar-Practitioner Project Assignment #1
1. Epidemiological topic of interest: The role Folic Acids plays in decreasing birth
defects in pregnant women
2. Epidemiological study design: case-control
3. Main exposure/risk factor(s): Folic Acid
4. Health outcome/disease(s): occurrence of neural tube defects (NTDs)
5. Population of interest : Pregnant women in optimal child bearing age (ages 20-35)
6. Research question(s): What is the association between the consumption of Folic Acid
supplementation during pregnancy and the occurrence of neural tube defects or NTDs
in women aged 20-35?