For each research goal listed here please select the best re

For each research goal listed here, please select the best research design that could be applied to most effectively address the goal. Be prepared to justify your answers. Identify the threats to internal validity that each design does and does not control for.

a. To determine the efficacy of a brief, clinic-based health promotion program that is designed to promote correct and consistent condom use among high-risk young women and also incorporates a social media component to affect the social networks of the young women enrolled

b. To determine the efficacy of a community-based health promotion intervention designed to promote physical activity among high-risk youth in the Southeastern United States.

c. To assess whether a media campaign can reduce initiation of e-cigarette use among teens in the Pacific Northwestern United States.

d. To test the hypothesis that low perceived risk of cancer causes adolescents to start smoking and using novel tobacco products.

e. To test the effectiveness of a prescription drug abuse awareness program (note: you have a strong suspicion that the assessment instrument used for measuring prescription drug abuse is also likely to foster awareness—you would like to test this suspicion as well).

Solution

Ans. The best research design can be considered as option A. To determine the efficacy of a brief, clinibased health promotion program designed to promot the use of condoms amongst high risk women. Sexually transmitted disease is on the high especially among young men and women. Hence it is the need of the hour, to educate young men and women about the hazards of STD and control measures which can be used to overcome the same. Campaining on social media is a better platform as it is the most acessible one and used by young men women. The threats associated with most of the option\'s are that awareness program is not a foolproof solution and it is a difficult task to achieve the desired results, misuse of such programs is often posed threat.