A 2-Week-Old Infant Is Brought to a Family Practice Office

question 14

Multiple Choice

A 2-week-old infant is brought to a family practice office for a scheduled visit. The parents appear anxious, as this is their first child. They express multiple concerns to the nurse about their son's sleep patterns, feeding, and crying. The RN provides empathetic listening and education to calm their fears, and they are receptive to the teaching. When the RN discusses vaccination with the parents, they refuse to vaccinate their son because they have heard vaccines can cause autism in children.
-Which of the following statements is not true concerning vaccines?

• A)They consist of killed or inactivated cells.
• B)They consist of live but weakened microbes.
• C)It is possible to be allergic to vaccine preparations.
• D)Autism only happens in rare instances of vaccination.

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Definitions:

Conditional Probabilities

The probability of an event occurring given that another event has already occurred, reflecting the dependence between events.

Joint Probabilities

The probability that multiple events will occur simultaneously.

Posterior Probabilities

Probabilities that are updated on the basis of new evidence, incorporating the likelihood of observed data under given hypotheses.

Likelihood Probabilities

The probabilities that express the plausibility of different parameter values for a statistical model given the observed data.