A nurse researcher wishes to identify rates of pertussis infection in children less than one year of age and then again at 6 years of age to examine the relationship of immunization status on infection rates in this population. This is an example of which

a. Correlational, longitudinal
b. Correlational, cross-sectional
c. Descriptive, longitudinal
d. Descriptive, cross-sectional


ANS: A

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