EBR MCQS- THE GOVERNMENT

1. Which of the following is not the analytical study?

a. Cross sectional comparative study
b. Case control study
c. Cohort study
d. Prevalence study
2. Sentinel surveillance indicates
a. identifying the missing cases
b. identifying high risk group
c. surveillance of water population
d. surveillance of environmental control
3. Prevalence of disease is estimated from
a. case control study
b. cross sectional study
c. cohort study
d. randomized trial
4. The following disease have a bimodal distribution except
a. Breast cancer in female
b. Cervix cancer
c. Leukemia
d. Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
5. Odds ratio is calculated in
a. Case control study
b. Cross sectional study
c. Cohort study
d. Randomized trial
6. Prevention of emergence or development of risk factors is a type of
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Primordial prevention
7. The numerator is not the component of denominator in
a. rate
b. ratio
c. Proportion
d. None of the above
8. CHERNOBYL tragedy is an example of
a. Point source epidemic
b. Propagated epidemic
c. Modern epidemic
d. Continuous epidemic
9. All of the following disease are spread by droplet nuclei except
a. Influenza
 b. Chicken pox
c. Anthrax
d. Q fever
10. Father of public health is
a. cholera
b. john Snow
c. Luis Pasteur
d. Typhoid
11. Among the routine vaccine of EPI which one is most sensitive to heat
a. TT
b. Measles
c. Polio
d. DPT
12. Vaccine that should be kept in freezer are
a. Polio, DPT, measles
b. Polio measles BCG
c. BCG DPT measles
d. BCG DPT and polio
13. In the epidemiological terminology human host is referred to as
a. Soil
b. Seed
c. Extrinsic factor
d. none of them
14. Level of resistance of a community or group of people to a particular disease is
a. Passive immunity
b. Active immunity
c. Herd immunity
d. None of them
15. Prevalence is a
a. Ratio
b. Rate
c. Proportion
d. Mode of diseases
16. First step of epidemic investigation?
a. Preparing case definition
b. Mapping the epidemic
c. Confirmation
d. Searching for the cases
17. Health education on early diagnosis and treatment is
a. primary prevention
b. secondary prevention
c. tertiary prevention
d. primordial prevention
18. An abstract of the journal article doesn’t contain
a. Methodologies
b. Result
c. Objectives
d. Ethical consideration
19. Community based participatory researches (CBPR) use
a. Emic perspective
b. Etic perspective
c. Technical perspective
d. Both b and c
20. Usually conventional researches base on
a. Deduction
b. Induction
c. Relationalism
d. None of the above
21. Observation checklist is the ……………. of data collection
a. Tool
b. Method
c. Manual
d. Guideline
22. Qualitative data is not generated by
a. Focus group discussion
b. Observation
c. Questionnaire
d. Interviews
23. The selection of groups of study units instead of selection of study units is called
a. Stratified sampling
b. Cluster sampling
c. Systematic sampling
d. Multistage sampling
24. In pilot phase of research, which of the technique is economical and easy for data
collection?
a. participant observation
b. rapid appraisal
c. survey
d. both a and c
25. The variables that are used to describe or measure the factors that are assumed to
canuse or at least influence the problem are called
a. independent variables
b. dependent variables
c. confounding variable
d. none of the above
26. Validity of research findings denote:
 a. Consistency
b. Relativity
c. Accuracy
d. Reliability
27. If observed changes in a group are due to the fact that it is being studied rather than
due to experimentation, the effect is termed as
a. Placebo effect
b. Confounding
c. Withdrawal effect
d. Hawthorne effect
28. Which of the following is not the ethical principle for health and bio-medical
researches?
a. Beneficence
b. Justice
c. Informed consent
d. Reliability
29. Random error or bias in research is due to
a. sampling reliability
b. random fluctuation
c. response error
d. both a and b
30. Data processing does not involve
a. categorizing data
b. coding
c. analyzing
d. summarizing
31. A variable that is associated with problem as well as with a possible cause of the
problem is
a. causative variable
b. confounding variable
c. dependent variable
d. independent variable
32. Focus group discussion is the group discussion of ……persons.
a. 6-12
b. 3-5\
c. 10-14
d. none of above
33. The research for measuring the efficacy of vaccine is:
a. basic research
b. applied research
c. conductive research
d. action research
34. The common characteristic that both experimental and quasi-experimental sudy should
possess is
a. Manipulation
b. control groups
c. randomization
d. None
35. Married-unmarried, child-adult, male- female is
a. ordinal scale
b. interval scale
c. ratio scale
d. nominal scale
36. Which of the following is not a discrete variable?
a. Skin color
b. Blood pressure
c. Weight
d. Boys in the class

37. Which of the following type of the diagrams can be used to find out the relationship
between two variables?
a. Pictogram
b. Bar diagram
c. Histogram
d. Scatter diagram

38. A pectoral diagram of frequency distribution is denoted by?

a. Line chart
b. Bar chart
c. Histogram
d. Pie chart
39. Low birth weight LBW statistics of a hospital is best shown by:
a. Bar chart
b. Histogram
c. Frequency polygon
d. Pie chart

40. 30 babies were born in hospital, 10 were less than 2.5 kg and 20 were greater than 2.5
kg the average is
 a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Geometric mean
d. Mode
41. Median is almost equivalent to
a. 25th percentile
b. 50th percentile
c. 75th percentile
d. 10th percentile
42. Mean of 400 variables is 100 and standard deviation is 8 what will be the error of
deviation?
a. 4
b. 1
c. 2
d. 4

43. Standard error is measure of

a. Conceptual error
b. sampling error
c. Instrumental error
d. Observer error
44. If probability of being Rh negative is 1/10 then of being Rh positive will be
a. 1/10
b. 9/10
c. ½
d. 1
45. Confidence limit can be calculated by using
a. Mean and range
b. Mean standard deviation
c. Median and range deviation
d. Median and standard
46. For 95% confidence limit truth is
a. Reduces 95% confidence of values
b. 96 of standard error of mean
c. 56 of standard error of mean
d. 5% of standard error of mean
47. The truth about normal distribution curve is all except
a. Mean median and mode of all confidence
b. Standard deviation is one
c. Mean of the curve is hundred
d. The total area of the curve is one
48. Area between one standard deviation on either side of mean in normal distribution
curve is:
a. 60%
b. 68%
c. 95%
d. 99%
49. If the mean is 220 and the standard error is 10 the 95% confidence limits would be:
a. 210-330
b. 200-240
c. 215-225
d. 220±0.2
50. Normal curve is
a. Linear
b. Symmetrical
c. Curvilinear
d. Parabolic
51. Normal distribution curve depends upon
a. Mean and sample
b. Mean and median
c. Mean and standard deviation
d. Median and standard error