Cross Sectional Study Strengths And Weaknesses

What is the key feature of a cross-sectional study? Present the strengths and weaknesses of the approach. Select two other peers' postings and debate their rational. Cross sectional study is known for some time being used in a very general sense to help classify, (Ridner, 2007) all or any study that is not involve any kind of follow up of a research subjects like for instant like there is a study in which a group of subjects are than recruited over a very long amount of time. But is never ever been called about followed up this is considered or labeled as cross-sectional study is the kind can type study, which involves a comparison of either two or more group that at one time is opposed or compare to the longitudinal study that will or can traces a cohort of a person or people at a very long period. The strengths of cross
It also has ability to study multiple outcome and exposures it prevalence of a disease or any other health related characteristics are very important, to public health for helping to assess the burden that involves in a disease of an specified (Burchell, 2007) population and also with planning as well as allowing casting the health resources. The last strength of cross sectional study is that it good for use of descriptive analyses and help to generating hypotheses, the weaknesses of cross sectional studies that is very difficult to help determine whether are not an outcome will or has followed an exposure in a timely manner. Or if the exposure had resulted from an outcome another weakness of cross sectional studies is that it not suitable for studying any kind of rare disease, or disease within a short period of time another weakness is even thou cross sectional studies dose measure the