A Nurse Practitioner Is Working in a Crowded Neighborhood Where

Multiple Choice

A nurse practitioner is working in a crowded neighborhood where the population is primarily immigrants from China. The nurse has designed a research study to follow children from kindergarten to the age of 25. She is going to be looking at their diet, successful progression in school, health practices, and development of disease, to name a few items. This type of research is known as

A) cohort study.
B) cross-sectional study.
C) case-control study.
D) epidemiological study.