Step 5. Create a 6 page report.

Write a report of your study (typed, double space, with references) using the outline below. Limit your paper to 6 pages using the headers in bold. Include the number of paragraphs for each section and sentences as indicated. See last page of instructions for a visual example of what your paper should look like.

Page 1.Cover page

Title: Association between Demographic, Lifestyle, and Physical Characteristics on Diabetes Risk.

Your Name, Date, EXW 444

Page 2. Introduction- include 3 paragraphs to tell reader why the study is important.

Paragraph 1. Write the purpose & descriptive epidemiology of theoutcomevariable diabetes. Use this CDC website for source of data

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pdfs/data/2014-report-estimates-of-diabetes-and-its-burden-in-the-united-states.pdf

Sentence 1: Identify the purpose of your study

Remaining sentences. Write the descriptive epidemiology of diabetes, such as the prevalence by age and sex, and the risk it poses for the prevalence of morbidities, disabilities, and mortality rates.

Paragraph 2. Identify the prevalence in the U.S. of4 exposure variables (BMI, smoking, hypertension, and low PA) on health outcomes. Use a CDC website of your choice as a source of information. Cite your website in reference page.

Paragraph 3. Give a statement why you are doing the study to wrap up the introduction and lead the reader to the next section.

Sentence 1:"The purpose of this study was to examine ...."

Sentence 2: "Data were obtained from the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey (BRFSS)."

Sentence 3:"Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were computed to determine...."

Page 3. Methods and Results

Methods - include 1 paragraph to orient reader to your data

Paragraph 1.Sentences 1 -?? Identify your data source 2017 BRFSS; total sample size obtained from the 2x2 table for sex & diabetes status; name of your exposure variables and outcome variables; identify how you obtained your data (using the CDC WEAT tool) and that you computed odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals for each exposure and outcome variable combination.

Results- include 1 paragraph to describe your table in general terms.

Paragraph 1. Describe your proportions and OR (95% CI)

Sentence 1:Identify the percent in sample for these variables: males, largest age group, overweight and obese, smokers, those with hypertension, and those doing no physical activity.

Sentence 2 and more as needed: Identify the variables that had strength of association (based on your 95% CI) by each category - Demographic (age, sex), lifestyle (smoking, PA), and physical characteristics (smoking, hypertension). For each one, put their OR and 95% CI in a parentheses. If a variable or strata in a variable was not significant, don't report it. At end of the last sentence, tell reader that data are in Table 1.

Example how to word sentences:

"Demographic risk factors with strength of association were male sex (OR = xx, 95% CI = x, x) and xx (OR = xx, 95% CI = x, x). Lifestyle risk factors ... were (OR = ...). Physical risk factors ... were (OR = ...)". None of the remaining risk factors were related to diabetes risk. See Table 1."

Page 4: Table 1. - put your table on page 4. Do not break up the table between 2 pages.

Page 5: Discussion- 4 paragraphs to announce purpose and general results, compare results with established norms, what you can do to prevent risk, summary. You can go over to page 6 if needed.

Paragraph 1. Opening general reveal of your results

Sentence 1:State the purpose of the study.

"The purpose of this study was to ..."

Sentence 2: Identify the variables that had the highest strength of association with diabetes. For those with 3 or 4 levels, identify if they showed a dose response relation.

Example:

"Potential risk factors with the highest risk for diabetes were [example: male sex, being told you have hypertension, age group 65+]...." Odds ratios were not significant for other risk factors.

Paragraph 2. Description of established risk factors.

Sentence 1:Identify established risk factors (see and cite Fletcher et al. article).

Sentences 2 - ??: Compare how the results of your analyses are consistent with established risk factors. Indicate which of the established risk factors you did not measure and cannot compare.

Paragraph 3. Indicate what people can do to reduce their risk for diabetes. Refer to the website for a reference and source of information.https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/diabetes-prevention/preventing-diabetes-full-story/

Paragraph 4.State your overall findings and summarize the implications of this risk in 2 or 3 sentences.

"In summary, this study found the odds for those with risk factors of [example: male sex, no physical activity, etc.] have diabetes was from xx to xx times higher as likely as those without the risk factors having diabetes. This suggests ... xxx. "

Page 6:References - use American Medical Association style. Use this link to identify how to cite journal articles and websites and how to cite your study in the body of the paper. https://www.lib.jmu.edu/citation/amaguide.pdf

Cite your references using superscript numbers in text. Such as, "Jones et al.¹ showed that ..."

Page 7: 2 x 2 Tables and OR calculations for each exposure level