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    DE LA SALLE HEALTH SCIENCES INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

    DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE

    CM2 SY 2011-2012

    OUTPUTS 8 & 9: PLAN FOR DATA ANALYSIS

    Exposure to Air-conditioning Systems in Classrooms Leads to Mild Severity of Allergic Rhinitis in

    Second Year High School Students of Selected Schools in Dasmarias City, Cavite: A Cross-

    Sectional Study.

    SUBMITTED ON:

    December 15, 2011

    SUBMITTED TO:

    DR. JOVILIA M. ABONG

    SUBMITTED BY:

    GROUP 1A

    ARCAIRA, JOSHUA A.

    ABAD, MARY RAINA ANGELI

    ANCHETA, JONATHAN

    BASUL, CHARINE

    CARAVEO, JULIEN NICOLE

    CRUZ, SPICA

    ESPINOZA, FAITH KRISTINE

    GARCIA, RAY WILSON

    KALALO, GERARD MICHAEL

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    OUTPUTS 8 & 9: PLAN FOR DATA ANALYSIS

    GROUP 1A, DR. JOVILIA M. ABONG

    RESEARCH QUESTION:

    Among second year high school students with allergic rhinitis of selected schools in Dasmarias, Cavite,

    will exposure to air-conditioned school rooms affect the severity of their allergic rhinitis?

    RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

    General Objective: To determine if the exposure to the air-conditioning system affects the severity

    of allergic rhinitis in second year high school students of selected schools in Dasmarias, Cavite.

    Specific Objectives:

    1. To identify the prevalence of allergic rhinitis among second year high school students of

    selected schools in of Dasmarias, Cavite based on their classroom conditions (air-conditioned

    vs. non-air-conditioned).2. To determine the severity of allergic rhinitis according to ARIA classifications.

    3. To identify the risk factors of allergic rhinitis present in the classroom or school, such as the

    presence of molds, chalk dust, house dust, and cockroaches.

    4. Compare the severity of allergic rhinitis in students who are exposed to air-conditioned

    classrooms and those who are not exposed to air-conditioned classrooms.

    RESEARCH DESIGN

    A Cross-Sectional type of research design will be implemented in this study to determine if there is a

    relationship between exposure to air-conditioning system in the classroom and mild severity allergic

    rhinitis.

    PLAN FOR DATA ANALYSIS

    1. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

    A. Measures of Disease Frequency

    The measures of disease frequency and proportion that the researchers may employ for this

    study include the Prevalence Rate of the disease. Prevalence Rate can be further subdivided into

    point prevalence or period prevalence. Since allergic rhinitis is believed to be genetic and

    environmental, either of the two divisions may be used in getting the prevalence rate of Allergic

    Rhintis.

    The researchers can also use Ratio by getting the number of students whose Allergic

    Rhinitis has been mild due to presence or absence of air-conditioning systems as numerator and

    all cases as denominator. The same can also be applied in getting the ratio of the students whose

    Allergic Rhinitis have been moderate or severe due to presence or absence of air-conditioning

    systems and the total number of severe cases.

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    In getting the proportion, the students whose Allergic Rhinitis have been mild and

    moderate-severe due to presence or absence of air-conditioning systems will be the numerator

    and the entire study population of students with Allergic Rhinitis will be the denominator.

    B. Measures of Association

    Since this is a cross-sectional study, our measures of association will be based on the prevalenceratio, in which the relationship of those exposed to an air-conditioning system in the classroom

    and the severity of the patients Allergic Rhinitis is evaluated using the following equation:

    Prevalence (Severity) of AR in air-conditioned classrooms

    Prevalence Ratio = Prevalence (Severity) of AR in non air-conditioned classrooms

    If the prevalence ratio is equal to one (1), then there is no association between the two

    variables. If the prevalence ratio is greater or less than one (1), the there is an association

    between.

    2. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

    Plan of Hypothesis Test

    This study will have a one-tailed test and will move in the direction that having an air conditioning

    system in the classroom leads to milder severity of AR. Therefore, the data to be used is the proportion of

    students who have mild severity AR from the air conditioned classrooms and those from non-air

    conditioned classrooms based on the ARIA classification. Since we are to compare ratios from two

    independent groups, we are to use the T-test.

    State Plan possible for Interpretation of Data

    The level of significance used in the study is 0.05. When the p value is compared to the level of

    significance, this will determine whether we reject or do not reject the null hypothesis which claims thatthere is no association between air conditioning system and mild severity of AR. If the p value is less than

    0.05, the test is statistically significant and we reject the null hypothesis. If the p value is greater than

    0.05, the test is not statistically significant and therefore we do not reject the null hypothesis and the

    alternative hypothesis will not have sufficient evidence to be concluded.

    Plan Confidence Interval and Covert Interpretation of Data

    With a level of significance of 0.05, the confidence interval is 95% and corresponds to a reliability

    coefficient (or Z value) of 1.96. Then we compute for the following:

    y Confidence Interval (CI) = Point estimate (reliability coefficient * standard error)y Standard Error = npp 1 , where p is the proportion of students that have mild severity AR

    that have air conditioned classrooms.