Question

You want to design an experimental study that tests the efficacy of Sunaway at preventing skin cancer. Describe the study design in detail. Include: who would be eligible for this trial, how you would recruit participants and how many, what information you would collect at baseline, how many study arms you would need, how long you would run the trial, whether it would be blinded (single or double), and any other study considerations.

Answer 1

Problem statement - To evaluate the efficacy of Sunaway at prevention of skin cancer .

Research design - Randomised controlled trial

Eligibility criteria :-

- patient with age group between 5-18 years

- newly diagnosed patients with skin cancer

- performance score of 3-4

- only skin cancer patients to be taken

Total subjects to be enrolled are 240

Study arm -2 . Arm ( A ) and Arm ( B )

Duration of trial - 2year

It would be a double blind study in which a nurse will randomise the patient into either arm A ( medicine ) or arm B ( no medicine ) then the nurse will make understand the Patient about the medications and then send to the researcher for taking date for medication at day care and then other procedures like Informed consent form and providing the patient sheet to write the issues he or she felt after taking the medication.