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Research and Cannabis: Basic Data Dictionary

 

 

 

 

 

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Research and Cannabis: Basic Data Dictionary

 

No.	Variable Name	Description	Data Format	Type	Validation
1	Age	The age of the selected study participants in years.	Numeric	Nominal	0 to 18
2	Gender	The study subjects classified by their gender.	Numeric	Nominal	1 and 0 to represent male “M” and Female “F” respectively
3	Race	The different ethnic/racial groups of the study participants	Other	Textual	Different ethnic groups such as African Americans and Caucasian whites.
4	CBD medication dosing	The dosing of the drug being tested among different study participants	Numeric	Discrete	From 5 mg/m2 to 10 mg/m2given orally 1 to 3 hours before chemo.
5	THC intoxication severity	The severity of the study participants’ symptoms of THC intoxication	Other (severity scale)	Ordinal	1 to 5
6	Frequency of adverse events	The number of times adverse events are reported by the study participants	Percentage	Nominal	0-100
7	Positive Response	Study subjects who display positive outcomes with the use of CBD medication in managing THC intoxication	Other	Dichotomous	Yes or No
8	Duration of Use of medication	The period the study participants have used CBD medication therapies	Interval	Nominal	4 to 12 weeks
9	Reverse anxiety-like behaviors	The ability of CBD to reverse anxiety-like behavior among study participants.	Percentage	Nominal	0-100
10	Reverse addictive-like behavior	The ability of CBD to reverse addictive-like behavior among the study participants	Percentage	Nominal	0-100

 

 

 

References

Simonian, J. S., Varanasi, S., Richards, G. J., Van Nguyen, A., Diaz-Fong, J. P., & Le, J. (2020). A critical narrative review of medical cannabis in pediatrics beyond epilepsy, part III: chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and inflammatory bowel disease. Pediatric Medicine, 3, 12–12. https://doi.org/10.21037/pm-20-70