Archives: FRCA Part 1

FCA1-0777

Volunteers are being recruited for a new clinical trial of a novel drug treatment for Ulcerative colitis. The proposed study will enrol about 2000 people with ulcerative colitis. Testing will be performed to assess any reduction in disease severity with the new drug as compared to the current treatment available in the industry. Which phase of clinical trial will this be?

FCA1-0778

How data is collected for the Delphi survey technique?

FCA1-0779

Which of the following is correct regarding correlation?

FCA1-0780

A 68-year-old man presents worried about his risk of motor neurone disease. No symptoms have developed, but his father suffered from motor neurone disease. Recently, his cousin has also been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He searched the internet for screening tests for motor neurone disease and found a blood test called €˜neuron’, and requests to have it done. You search this blood test and find a prospective study going on evaluating the potential benefits of this blood test. On average, this test diagnosed patients with the disease 8 months earlier than the patients who are diagnosed on the basis of their clinical symptoms. The patients diagnosed using this neuron test also survived, on average, 48 months from the diagnosis, whereas the patients diagnosed clinically survived an average of 39 months from the diagnosis. Considering the clear benefits, you decide to have it done on the patient. Which of the following options best relate to the above scenario?

FCA1-0781

Two different anti-viral treatments are being evaluated for COVID-19 in a clinical study. Which of the following statistical method should be opted to compare survival time with?

FCA1-0782

The Kappa statistic (aka Cohen’s kappa coefficient) can be used to measure which of the following?

FCA1-0783

Which of the following options are correct regarding epidemiology in public health?

FCA1-0771

The population incidence of a disease is best described by?

FCA1-0772

A controlled retrospective study’s level of evidence is?