{"id":360,"date":"2021-11-01T19:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T00:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btscrpdev.wpengine.com\/?post_type=glossary&amp;p=360"},"modified":"2021-11-01T19:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T00:59:45","slug":"cross-sectional-correlational-design","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/btscrpwebresource1\/glossary\/cross-sectional-correlational-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-sectional correlational design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Study design&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;A process where the given evaluation methodology and statistical analyses are designed to produce conclusions that reflect the truth.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\"  href=\"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/btscrpwebresource1\/glossary\/study-design\/\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>study design<\/a> where the study variables are assessed at a single point in time. It does not allow for assessing whether a treatment or intervention caused a change in behavior or in another study outcome. The treatment or intervention can only be said to be associated with behavior or other study outcomes. Even a strong association is insufficient evidence to permit any cause-effect statements or inferences pertaining to causation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Study design&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;A process where the given evaluation methodology and statistical analyses are designed to produce conclusions that reflect the truth.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/btscrpwebresource1\/glossary\/study-design\/\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">study design<\/a> where the study variables are assessed at a single point in time. It does not allow for assessing whether a treatment or intervention caused a change in behavior or in another study outcome. The treatment or intervention can only be said to be associated with behavior or other study outcomes. Even a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-360","1":"glossary","2":"type-glossary","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/btscrpwebresource1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/btscrpwebresource1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/btscrpwebresource1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/btscrpwebresource1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/btscrpwebresource1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/btscrpwebresource1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}