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    This document summarizes a study that examined the relationship between playing video games and asthma attacks in children. The study had several limitations, including selection bias, information bias, measurement bias, and not establishing proper temporality or ruling out third factors. While the study found a possible dose-response relationship between increased video game time and more asthma attacks, it is most likely that confounding from third factors like pollution contributed to the children's asthma rather than video games alone. Improving the study design by addressing biases, considering third factors, and replicating the results would help determine if there is a true causal relationship.

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    This document summarizes a study that examined the relationship between playing video games and asthma attacks in children. The study had several limitations, including selection bias, information bias, measurement bias, and not establishing proper temporality or ruling out third factors. While the study found a possible dose-response relationship between increased video game time and more asthma attacks, it is most likely that confounding from third factors like pollution contributed to the children's asthma rather than video games alone. Improving the study design by addressing biases, considering third factors, and replicating the results would help determine if there is a true causal relationship.

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    This document summarizes a study that examined the relationship between playing video games and asthma attacks in children. The study had several limitations, including selection bias, information bias, measurement bias, and not establishing proper temporality or ruling out third factors. While the study found a possible dose-response relationship between increased video game time and more asthma attacks, it is most likely that confounding from third factors like pollution contributed to the children's asthma rather than video games alone. Improving the study design by addressing biases, considering third factors, and replicating the results would help determine if there is a true causal relationship.

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    PLAYING VIDEO GAMES RELATED WITH ASTHMA for FK UPH batch 2018

    Name: Lourdes Joanna Kusumadi


    NIM: 01071180126
    Tutor: Dr. Jesslyn
    1.Description of Place Person Time
    Place Person Time
     Emergency Room (ER)  Children who played
     Inner city video games
     Inner city children
     Children with asthma
    attack
     Mormons
     Adventists

    2. HYPOTHESIS: PLAYING VIDEO GAMES RELATED WITH ASTHMA


    3. Find the Best/possible ASSOCIATION:
    A. Chance (Yes/No) Explanation:
    Yes, because the data obtained is only from one city. On the other hand, if the research is
    done or is conducted at several places simultaneously. The result might differ as video
    games might have no relationship with asthma attack, as there are many factors that leads
    to asthma attack

    B. Confounding (Yes/No) Explanation:


    Yes, asthma is caused by many factors other than video games. The third factor might be
    in a form of pollution, sedentary lifestyle, or weather. For instance, in this case, pollution
    might be one of the main factor for asthma attack because the research is conducted in
    inner city that translates to the use of many transportation vehicles, which may result in
    high pollution in the air. Children who had come in contact with the air may have asthma
    attack, but this happened when they are doing their daily activity which is playing video
    games.

    c. Bias (Yes/No) Explanation:


    Yes, there are several forms of bias in this case, such as following:
    o Selection Bias
    The subject of the research have asthma, so there is no other subject for comparison
    in this case, and they have chosen their control group wrong as well.
    o Information Bias
    The researches have claimed to ask the children directly, and children usually have
    vague memories and their answers usually differs. Childrens are easily influenced
    when answering questions, hence the accuracy of the answers are questionable.
    o Measurement Bias
    The amount spent playing video games are not stated.
    D. Reverse Time Order (Yes/No) Explanation:
    Yes, as the kids already have asthma prior to playing video games. Therefore, this could
    happen since probably they are born with asthma conditions or playing outside may have
    contributed to their asthma attack such as panics, pollution, dust, etc.

    E. Causal Explanation by using Bradford Hill Causation:


    o Strength of Association (Yes/No) Explanation:
    No, in this case there are no enough data to support this
    o Consistency (Yes/No) Explanation:
    No, as the result of this research has only been done once
    o Temporality (Yes/No) Explanation
    No, because even the researchers are still looking in depth about the relationship, and that
    they are not sure if the exposure comes before the outcome
    o Biological Gradient/Dose Response (Yes/No) Explanation:
    Yes, according to the research, the higher the usage of video games by children, the more
    frequent they would get asthma attacks
    o Plausibility (Yes/No) Explanation:
    No, there were no basic theories about the association of playing video games with asthma
    o Specificity (Yes/No) Explanation:
    No, there are too many factors that could asthma
    o Coherence (Yes/No) Explanation:
    No, the exposure in this case does not support the theory that video games causes asthma
    because there are too many biases in this case
    o Experiment (Yes/No) Explanation:
    Yes, the researcher believes in their theory and they have done the experiment to see the
    correlation between video games and asthma attacks
    o Analogy (Yes/No) Explanation:
    No, the experiment wasn’t experimented on other species, it was solely dedicated to
    humans especially children.

    4. The most possible Association: Confounding


    I believe that this is the main association because there are so many third factors that
    contribute to asthma attacks and not video games.

    5. PREVENTION (PRACTICAL) Could be in ACTION PLAN or suggestion for design study


    or prevention of bias.
    1. Change the control group
    2. Clearer place & time
    3. Improve the consistency
    4. Consider the third factors that causes asthma (ex. Pollution)

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