| Course | NURS 832 Clinical Prevention and Biostatistics (NURS832) |
|---|---|
| Module/Week | 7 |
| Assignment | Outbreak Survey Built in Epi Info 7 for a Measles Outbreak |
| Paper type | Outbreak questionnaire built in Epi Info 7, with cover page and design notes |
| Length | about 703 words, 3 double-spaced pages plus title page and references. Course guide: an outbreak questionnaire developed in Epi Info 7 for interviewing persons of interest or next of kin, used to track the student's chosen outbreak, submitted with a cover page |
| Format | APA 7 student paper |
| Points | 150 |
| School | Liberty University Online |
| Program | DNP |
| Where it sits | Module/Week 7 in Liberty's published NURS 832 course guide; current sections can differ |
| Updated | October 2026 |
Free sample paper for NURS 832 Week 7
Measles Case and Contact Questionnaire Built in Epi Info 7: Rash Onset, Vaccination Proof, the Exposure Window and the Infectious Period, Designed for the 2025 West Texas Outbreak
[Student Name]
School of Nursing, Liberty University
NURS 832: Clinical Prevention and Biostatistics
Outbreak Survey
[Instructor Name]
[Date]
The questionnaire is a model built for the student's chosen outbreak; the reports, manual and software it draws on are real.
Measles Case and Contact Questionnaire Built in Epi Info 7: Rash Onset, Vaccination Proof, the Exposure Window and the Infectious Period, Designed for the 2025 West Texas Outbreak
Cover Page and Interviewer Instructions
Measles Case Investigation and Contact Questionnaire, West Texas Outbreak 2025. Built in Epi Info 7 Form Designer for telephone or in-person interviews with confirmed or suspected cases, or with a parent, guardian or next of kin when the case is a child or has died. The interviewer reads questions as written, records "unknown" rather than leaving a field blank and completes the rash onset date first, because every later window depends on it.
The Questionnaire
Page 1: Case Identification
- CaseID: text, assigned by health department
- Respondent: legal values self, parent or guardian, other relative, next of kin
- DateOfBirth: date; AgeYears: calculated
- Sex: legal values male, female
- CountyOfResidence: legal values list of Texas counties
- RashOnsetDate: date, required
Page 2: MMR Vaccination
- MMRDoses: legal values 0, 1, 2, unknown
- Dose1Date, Dose2Date: date
- ProofSource: legal values immunization record, provider record, registry, parent recall only, none
- ReasonNotVaccinated: legal values too young, medical, religious or personal belief, other, unknown
Page 3: Clinical Features and Classification
- FeverOnsetDate: date; MaxTemperatureF: number
- Rash: yes, no, unknown; RashStartLocation: legal values face or hairline, trunk, other
- Cough, Coryza, Conjunctivitis, KoplikSpots: yes, no, unknown
- Complications: pneumonia, dehydration, diarrhea, ear infection, encephalitis, other, each yes, no, unknown
- Hospitalized: yes or no; AdmitDate, DischargeDate: date; ICU: yes or no
- VitaminAGiven: yes, no, unknown
- Outcome: legal values recovered, still ill, died
Page 4: Laboratory
- SpecimenType: throat or nasopharyngeal swab, urine, serum
- RTPCRResult, IgMResult: positive, negative, pending, not done
- Genotype: text, from state laboratory
- CaseClassification: legal values confirmed, probable, not a case (completed by health department)
Page 5: Exposure Window (7 to 21 days before rash onset)
- Window dates displayed by check code
- Contact with a known case: yes, no, unknown; CaseIDOfSource: text
- Travel outside county or state: yes or no; Destination: text
- Settings attended: school, child care, church, health care facility, store or market, community gathering, each yes, no, unknown
Page 6: Infectious Period (4 days before to 4 days after rash onset)
- Window dates displayed by check code
- For each setting attended: name, address, date, time in and out
- Household members: number; for each, name, age, MMR doses, proof
- Other close contacts: name, phone, setting, date of contact
Design Notes
Dates come first. Every measles investigation step depends on the rash onset date, so it is required on page 1 and check code uses it to display the exposure window, seven to twenty-one days before, and the infectious period, four days before through four days after. Displaying the windows on screen prevents interviewers from calculating them by hand under time pressure. Consistent date fields also make real-time analysis possible: during a large South Carolina outbreak, a CDC nowcasting model corrected for reporting delays and estimated transmission trends, and the authors concluded that this works when essential date fields are consistently collected (Miller et al., 2026).
Vaccination is asked with proof. Nationally, 96% of measles patients early in 2025 were unvaccinated or of unknown status (Mathis et al., 2025), and among 54 hospitalized patients reviewed in West Texas, all were unvaccinated or of unknown status (Wang et al., 2026). Because recall is unreliable, the form records the source of proof, which determines whether a contact needs post-exposure prophylaxis, quarantine or exclusion.
Clinical fields map to the case classification. Fever, a generalized rash and at least one of cough, coryza or conjunctivitis make up the clinical picture, and laboratory confirmation or an epidemiologic link completes the classification. Complications and hospitalization fields mirror those reported in the West Texas review, where pneumonia occurred in 72.2% of reviewed inpatients and 70.4% needed oxygen (Wang et al., 2026), so the local data can be compared directly.
Settings are lists, not stories. Asking for named places with dates and times during the infectious period produces a list that public health staff can act on: notifying a church, a child care center or a clinic waiting room. In the Lubbock child care outbreak, investigators worked with caregivers and the facility to isolate cases, vaccinate and separate children too young for MMR (Ly et al., 2026). The questionnaire is finished only when every answer on page 6 can become a phone call someone makes tomorrow.
Wording is neutral. The reason for nonvaccination is asked once, without follow-up, and the interviewer instructions ask for a respectful tone. Families who feel judged name fewer contacts, and contacts are what control the outbreak. Epi Info's linked analysis tools then produce the epidemic curve and case tables used in the outbreak paper (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, n.d.; Rasmussen & Goodman, 2019).
References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). Epi Info. Retrieved October 3, 2026, from https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/
Ly, A. N., Shotts, A., Torres, T., Peacock, G., Sugerman, D. E., Crisp, C., Rodriguez, G., Dang, T., Martinez, D., Rai, S., Shetty, V., Meehan, A., Hocevar Adkins, S., Filardo, T. D., Dowling, N. F., & Wells, K. (2026). Measles outbreak in a child care facility: Lubbock, Texas, March-April 2025. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 75(21), 266-270. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7521a1
Mathis, A. D., Raines, K., Filardo, T. D., Wiley, N., Leung, J., Rota, P. A., Martinez, D., Rai, S., Shetty, V., Holzinger, N., Stanislawski, E., Daskalakis, D. C., Chatham-Stephens, K., Patel, M., & Sugerman, D. (2025). Measles update: United States, January 1-April 17, 2025. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 74(14), 232-238. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7414a1
Miller, P. B., Routledge, I., Pollock, E. D., Mathis, A. D., Raines, K., Mistry, D., Mitchell, L., Perez, T., Johnson, L., Ghinai, I., Biggerstaff, M., Gostic, K. M., Kahn, R., & Tori, M. (2026). Use of nowcasting to estimate real-time transmission trends during a measles outbreak: South Carolina, October 2025-March 2026. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 75(33), 516-521. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7533a1
Rasmussen, S. A., & Goodman, R. A. (Eds.). (2019). The CDC field epidemiology manual. Oxford University Press.
Wang, D., Rogers, C. C., Lutz, C. S., Sajewski, E. T., Almas, S., Clemmons, N. S., Gressick, K. A., Hernandez, C., Holbrooks, Z., Kidd, M. T., MartÃnez, D. L., McClaran, K., Mendoza, E., Milton, J. S., Northcott, K. D., Raines, K., Rai, S., Wells, K., Sugerman, D. E., . . . Shuford, J. A. (2026). Characteristics of patients hospitalized with measles during an outbreak: West Texas, January-March 2025. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 75(20), 252-257. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7520a1
What the NURS 832 Week 7 instructions ask
In Module/Week 7 of NURS 832, students use Epi Info 7 to develop an outbreak questionnaire that could be used to interview persons of interest or their next of kin and to track the outbreak chosen for the course paper. The survey is submitted with a cover page, as the course guide specifies. Because it builds on the tutorial and initial survey from Module/Week 2, the instructor will expect more: a questionnaire specific to the disease, with questions tied to its incubation period, case definition and control measures, and fields designed so the data can produce an epidemic curve and guide public health action, such as identifying contacts who need prophylaxis.
How this NURS 832 Week 7 example is built
After a cover page, the survey opens with a short set of interviewer instructions and the respondent's relationship to the case, since many measles cases are young children. It moves through identification and demographics, MMR vaccination with dose dates and proof, clinical features mapped to the case classification, complications and hospitalization, laboratory results including genotype, exposure history in the window before rash and places and contacts during the infectious period. Check code calculates the two date windows from the rash onset date and displays them to the interviewer. Design notes explain why dates come first and how the form feeds contact tracing, case classification and nowcasting.
NURS 832 Week 7 grading rubric: where the points go
Outbreak surveys are typically graded on relevance to the chosen outbreak, completeness of the questions an investigator would need, clarity and neutrality of wording, appropriate Epi Info field types and logic, organization and the presence of a cover page. Instructors look for questions tied to the disease's natural history, such as incubation and infectious periods, and for fields that can be analyzed: dates as dates, categories as legal values and yes or no questions with an unknown option. Attention to who will answer, a parent rather than a child, shows practical judgment, and so does planning the order of questions so the most important date is never missed.
NURS 832 Week 7 help: mistakes that cost points
Outbreak surveys often reuse a generic food-borne illness template or ask open questions such as "where have you been recently," which produce answers no one can analyze. Start from the disease: its incubation period, infectious period and case definition tell you which dates and places matter. Anchor every window to the rash onset date and let Epi Info compute the windows. Ask about vaccination with dates and proof, not memory alone. Keep wording neutral and respectful, especially with families who chose not to vaccinate, since a defensive respondent gives fewer contacts. Finally, pilot the form with a classmate playing a worried parent and time the interview; anything longer than twenty minutes will be cut short in the field.
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NURS 832 Week 7 questions, answered
What is the NURS 832 Outbreak Survey?
A Module/Week 7 assignment worth 150 points: an outbreak questionnaire built in Epi Info 7 to interview persons of interest or next of kin about the student's chosen outbreak, with a cover page.
Where can I find a free NURS 832 Week 7 sample paper?
The complete NURS 832 Week 7 measles case and contact questionnaire, with every field, the check code logic and the design notes, is available on this page free.
What is the infectious period for measles?
Measles is considered infectious from four days before through four days after rash onset, so investigators list every place and contact the patient had during that window.
What is the exposure window for measles?
Investigators look for exposures about seven to twenty-one days before rash onset, the range in which the measles incubation period typically falls.
Why ask about proof of MMR vaccination?
Recall of vaccination is unreliable, and documented doses with dates determine whether a contact needs post-exposure prophylaxis, quarantine or exclusion from school or child care.
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