Harris_DH202 Final Review

What involves using statistical tests to organize, describe, summarize & analyze to answer a research question

Which approach measures the relationship between variables?

The mean of the following set of values is 3: 7, 7, 8, 8, and 5.

Nonmaleficence is the Health provider's 1st obligation to the patient to do no harm

The purpose of dental hygiene research is to ________.

What is a body of techniques that uses observation, reason, and experimentation to further evidence?

What publication is a compilation of cogent issues currently studied?

In the 3rd National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), how many adults were found to have gingivitis?

An institutional review board should include which roles?

Which type of study is an in-depth report on a single person, group, event, or situation?

Which research approach involves a study of the development of the International Federation of DH Association?

Which study approximates the true experimental approach but lacks the control of true experimentation?

Autonomy is the Ability to govern one's profession & be self-determined and directed as a profession

An investigation that studies the frequency of flossing and periodontal disease is called a ________.

War crimes during World War II involved infecting prisoners with HIV. This was done to conduct research on AIDS

Which source provides funding for the educational and research activities of dental hygienists?

The most compelling ethical dilemma with the Tuskegee Study was which of the following?

Beneficence requires that existing harm be removed

Evidence-based practice takes into account which preferences?

In research involving human subjects, informed consent must be obtained so subjects understand the research they are in

A small version of a proposed study is called a ________.

Which of the following can be determined by examining the mean & median of the distribution?

A study in which neither the participant nor the researcher knows who is using a product or placebo is termed ________.

Periodontal disease is caused by convergence of bacteria and an aggressive ________.

Overall, the prevalence of both partial and total tooth loss in adults has ________.

The mode is the ________.

Who is the founder of dental hygiene?

This refers to a relationship or association between variables that can be measured mathematically.

risk markers are associated with the increased probability of disease but not considered to have a causal role.

Controlled or uncontrolled diabetes is an example of a Nominal scale?

Which of the following is determined by subtracting the square of the standard deviation?

The Tuskegee Syphilis study was conducted by which institution?

If dental hygiene is to evolve as a specific scientific discipline, ________.

Scales of measurement include Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio

Discrete variable is represented numerically

Which type of research considers the effect of intraoral sodium bicarbonate rinses on periodontal ligament of lab rats

What requires that critical thinking to explain the meaning of the findings & factors that could influence results

Informed consent, an ethical consideration, requires educating a subject about all aspects of the study

Why is dental hygiene research important?

The mean is commonly considered to be the ________.

Research misconduct may include ________.

The median is the ________.

Causality means that a particular exposure results in a particular outcome.

Which study tries to investigate cause-and-effect relationships and involves manipulation of variables?

Government entities such as the state department review research conducted in the private sector.

Which type of approach describes and interprets current events or situations?

A survey fits into a Descriptive approach

Institutions that conduct medical research usually have an entity known as HIPAA.

Stratifying a sample would define information such as age, gender, sex, income level, or educational levels.

What is the first step of the scientific method?

The theory that a disease can be attributed to many factors is termed ________.

The attempt to identify and describe the topic being researched is ________

Ethics, in a "nutshell," is about doing the right thing.

Which type of study investigates existing differences to determine possible causes?

Paternalism Involves DH researcher doing what he or she thinks is best for the patient

A case report is about a small group of people

This error occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected, and it is true.

A time series design measures the dependent variable and is done several times over a period of time.

Making good ethical decisions in research can help an institution, researchers, and society as a whole.

A study that uses questionnaires, opinionnaires, interviews, and indexes is called a ________.

Posttest sensitization is the effect of the pretest on the outcome of the study.

A case study is not a specific incidence of disease in one person

A Cohort is a population group with a common characteristics

What source contains oral epidemiological data from around the world?

Naming the problem or questionis the 1st Steps of the Scientific Method ?

A bar graph is used to present categorical data.

All of the following is private practice methodology except ________.

Which is NOT an attribute of Scholarly Identity?

What act adds to the confidentiality of patient records?

Central Limit suggests that in randomly selected population samples, the samples tend to be normally distributed

Ordinal scale organizes data into mutually exclusive categories that are rank-ordered based on some criterion

Continuous variable is large and infinite number of measures along a continuum

The following set of values has two modes: 7, 7, 8, 8, 5.

A histogram uses dots on a frequency table.

A risk indicator is a modifiable attribute that is known to be associated with a health condition.

Most events in this world tend to fall into a bell-shaped curve called a normal distribution or the ________.

Ethical behavior in research may be described as what is ________.

Observational studies can be conducted to infer causality.

Which approach studies the meaning of past events?

The Nuremberg Code was a result of ________.

Which is determined by subtracting the highest score from the lowest score?

Which of the following is NOT part of the Research Methodology Analogy?

Establishing risk is the same as establishing causality.

The study of disease in a target population is called ________.

As a result of the Belmont Report, medical research became a laborious process to protect human subjects

Evidence-Based Practice means ________.

To report an average without a measure of dispersion can misrepresent the data.

Poor ethical choices accumulate or snowball and can sometimes become unethical habits, which can affect all of us.

Veracity Can be defined simply as being honest

Which type of research studies the same population over an extended period of time?

Justice is Providing patients, test subjects, or populations with what is owed, due, or deserved

What group is charged with reviewing the ethical implications of a research study?

In a posttest-only design, the independent variable is introducing & then the dependent variable is measured.

Historical approach is designed to determine the meaning of past events

The prevention agenda for the United States is discussed in which publication?

A factorial design is used to study two or more independent variables.

The Belmont Report describes ethical principles & guidelines for research with human subjects, Principles include

Which is a perfect correlation?

Which is the most common correlation coefficient?

Characteristics of effective tables and graphs include ________.