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Question 14-20 A state board of health has just hired a dental hygienist to assess the dental status of all third graders in a nonfluoridated school district.Dental hygiene students are available to help with screenings and gain experience with gathering data through various indices.   14. In a private practice setting, the dental status of a client is determined by a comprehensive examination.In the public health setting, the comprehensive examination would MOST closely parallel

Question 25 and 26 A researcher conducts a study in which 200 persons with oral cancer and 200 without oral cancer are identified and provide their informed consent to participate.  Following this step, participants complete surveys that question them about past exposure to a group of variables suspected of being responsible for the disease (risk factors). The participants also give consent to have their past medical records reviewed in order for the researchers to gather more information.                            25. What type of study is described?

The statement “Following the oral health education program, students will be able to demonstrate proper brushing technique using a toothbrush and plastic tooth model with 80% accuracy” is best described as___________________________.

The hygiene association agrees to sponsor a “Smile Day” event to provide dental treatment and dental education to the students at the high school. The statement, “following participation in the treatment portion of this program, students will have 100% of their dental caries restored,” is an example of what type of statement?

In the evaluation phase of the classroom education component of your program, you plan to measure the children’s performance skills in the area of oral hygiene.  Which method would be best to accomplish this?

If the null hypothesis is rejected when it is actually true it is an example of which type of error?

The scores for the power toothbrushing group were as follows:  Mean 85, Median82, Mode 83.  What type of skew is present in this data?

When analyzing the DMFT data, the high group D value and relatively low group M and F values probably indicates that this population

What would be an appropriate statistical test to compare the mean scores between the power toothbrushing group and the group that received no instructions? (hint it test two groups)

Testlet:  Questions 1-6 You have recently been employed as a public health dental hygienist in a local health department.  You have been asked to plan, implement, and evaluate a school-based educational and preventive program for selected elementary schools located in your school district.  The program is to be based on the Healthy People 2020 oral health objectives.  Your plan includes classroom education and the use of a mobile dental van to provide cleanings, sealants, and fluoride treatments.  The following questions relate to this program. Which of the following Healthy People 2020 objectives will be part of the program you are developing?  Check all that apply