Which Is the BEST Example of Retrospective Analysis

question 34

Multiple Choice

Which is the BEST example of retrospective analysis?

• A) Researchers ask college students to write suicide notes to study what they think is the motivation for suicide.
• B) Therapists who had patients who committed suicide are interviewed to gain information on suicide.
• C) Adolescents at high risk for suicide are treated through a suicide prevention center.
• D) Those who have made suicide attempts are part of a suicide education program.

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Definitions:

Schizoaffective Disorder

A mental health condition characterized by a combination of schizophrenia symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, and mood disorder features, such as depression or mania.

Negative Symptoms

In the context of psychiatric conditions, particularly schizophrenia, symptoms that reflect decreases or deficits in normal emotional responses, motivation, or social behaviors.

Profoundly Depressed

A state of severe depression where an individual feels extreme despondency and incapacity.

Prodromal Phase

A stage that precedes the onset of a disease, characterized by early symptoms that might indicate the start of a disease before specific symptoms occur.