A nurse is part of a multidisciplinary team working with groups of depressed patients.Half the patients receive supportive interventions and antidepressant medication.The other half receives only medication.The team measures outcomes for each group.Which type of study is evident?

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Clinical epidemiology is a broad field that addresses what happens to people with illnesses seen by providers of clinical care.This study is concerned with the effectiveness of various interventions.Prevalence refers to numbers of new cases.Descriptive epidemiology provides estimates of the rates of disorders in a general population and its subgroups.Experimental epidemiology tests presumed assumptions between a risk factor and a disorder.

A Nurse Is Part of a Multidisciplinary Team Working with Groups