Example SBA Question and Answers
Example XML for Single Best Answers (SBAs) type question and answers section.
For clarity, only the id attributes necessary for linking together questions with their answers are included. Other required attributes (e.g. listType) are omitted. Questions and answers are shown in the same section, but that is not always the case.
SBA Question in Print
SBA Answer in Print
Example XML
<div1>
<titleGroup><title>
<p>Questions and Answers</p></title>
</titleGroup>
<div2 role="Q"><titleGroup>
<title>
<p>Questions</p>
</title></titleGroup><div3 role="SBA-question">
<p role="question">
<enumerator>1.</enumerator> A study is evaluating the effect of
agomelatine on postnatal depression at a mother and baby unit. which one of the
following should be considered when assessing the internal validity of this study?</p>
<p>
<list>
<list1>
<item1 role="option" id="prod-9780191234567-chapter-2-item1-9991">
<p>
<enumerator>A.</enumerator> Benefits of agomelatine in major depression
outside the postpartum period</p>
</item1>
<item1 role="option" id="prod-9780191234567-chapter-2-item1-9992">
<p>
<enumerator>B.</enumerator> The degree to which the subjects adhered to the
study protocol</p>
</item1>
<item1 role="option" id="prod-9780191234567-chapter-2-item1-9993">
<p>
<enumerator>C.</enumerator> The cost of using agomelatine compared with
standard care</p>
</item1>
<item1 role="option" id="prod-9780191234567-chapter-2-item1-9994">
<p>
<enumerator>D.</enumerator> Consistency of the reported outcome in comparison
with previous studies</p>
</item1>
<item1 role="option" id="prod-9780191234567-chapter-2-item1-9995">
<p>
<enumerator>E.</enumerator> Benefits of agomelatine in postpartum depression
when used at an outpatient service</p>
</item1>
</list1>
</list>
</p></div3><!-- Other questions, in more div3 elements, would go here -->
</div2>
<div2 role="A"><titleGroup>
<title>
<p>Answers</p>
</title></titleGroup><div3 role="SBA-answer">
<p>
<enumerator>1.</enumerator>
<xrefGrp role="answer">
<xref ref="prod-9780191234567-chapter-2-item1-9992">
<b>B</b>
</xref>
</xrefGrp>. </p>
<p role="explanation">Internal validity is the degree to which a study establishes the
cause-and-effect relationship between the treatment and the observed outcome. External
validity is the degree to which the results of a study becomes applicable outside the
experimental setting in which the study was conducted. In other words, external
validity refers to generalizability of study results while internal validity refers to
rigorousness of the research method. The benefit of agomelatine in different
populations (choices A and E) refrs to external validity; the cost of the drug and
consistency of results obtained from different studies are related to applicability of
the intervention in a clinical setting. Assessment of adherence to study protocol is
one of many ways of analysing the quality of an intervention trial.</p>
<p>
<bibItem author="Slack MK and Drugalis JR." class="article" title="Establishing the internal and external validity of experimental studies" journalName="American Journal of Health-Systems Pharm" date="2001" page="2173" pageLast="2184" vol="58"> Slack MK and Drugalis JR. Establishing the internal and
external validity of experimental studies. American Journal of Health-Systems Pharm
2001; 58: 2173-2184.</bibItem>
</p></div3><!-- The answers to the rest of the questions, in more div3 elements, would go here -->
</div2>
</div1>