Cross-Sectional Study - Research Paper

Running Head: Summary
Summary of a case study
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Summary of a case study
Introduction
The assignment focuses on summary of a research paper containing cross-sectional
study design. The study is based on prevalence of the disease in clinical practice samples.
The research paper focuses on the characteristics of a cross-sectional study and how cross-
sectional study is more effective than cohort and case-control study.
Discussion
Here the author of the paper has described two examples of the cross-sectional studies
in by two case studies. The first case study is focused on antibiotic resistance of
Propionibacterium acnes strains among the patients of the hospital in India. 80 patients who
were affected by acne vulgaris, were selected in the experiment. The researchers collected
different specimen of P. acnes from 52% of participants. Sensitivity of different antibiotics
such as erythromycin, clindamycin, and azithromycin on the specimen were comparatively
higher than the sensitivity to other antibiotics which are tetracycline, doxycycline,
minocycline, and levofloxacin (Sardana et al., 2016). According to the study, if the
experiments would have been performed after two or more years, the results would be
different. Other case study was based on the assessment of prevalence of HIV and risk factors
related to the male sex workers. The research paper has described that cross-sectional study
can be designed for assessing the population-based survey and used for analysing the clinical
prevalence of some studies which are based on the medical interventions. According to this
research paper cross sectional studies are effective for calculating Odds Ratio. According to
Shinde et al., (2009), 33% of male sex workers shows prevalence for HIV and male sex
workers are more prone to infection of HIV. The Odds Ratio is 3.5 which signifies that
transgendered people were more prone to infection rather than the males.