Xpress Minion test

1.

1 point

Secondary attack rate reflects:

Severity

Communicability

Fatality

Infectivity

2.

1 point

First step in investigation of epidemic:

Find the source

Confirm epidemic

Confirm diagnosis

Defining population at risk

3.

1 point

Which one of the following is NOT a socio-economic indicator:

Literacy rate

Family size

Housing

Life expectancy at birth

4.

1 point

Weight in kg is:

Normal variable

Discrete variable

Confounding variable

Continuous variable

5.

1 point

Incubatory carriers are not an important source of transmission in the following disease

Cholera

Measles

Mumps

Poliomyelitis

6.

1 point

Crossover study is done when:

Case and control are different

Control and case are the same

Control is same and case is different

Case is the same and control is different

7.

1 point

Time between entry of the organism and to produce maximum infection is known as:

Incubation period

Generation time

Serial interval lead

Lead time

8.

1 point

All are true of standardized mortality ratio except:

Expressed as rate per year

Can be adjusted for age

Can be used for events other than death

Ratio of observed deaths to expected deaths

9.

1 point

Which of the following is true about Swajaldhara?

It is a community led participatory programme

Swajaldhara I has district as the project area

Swajaldhara II is for a gram panchayat or a group of panchayat

All are true

10.

1 point

All of the following statements concerning meta analysis are true except:

A study in which the units of analysis are populations or groups, rather than individuals

Used to enhance the statistical power of research findings where number in studies available are too small

Is applied by pooling results of small, randomized, controlled trials when no single trial has large enough numbers to reach a statistical significance.

It combines results from different studies to obtain a numerical estimate of overall effect