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Enhance understanding of research concepts. Apply research concepts to reading of research studies.
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Process of statistically pooling results from previous studies into one quantitative analysis:
Systematic Review
Meta-synthesis
Meta-analysis
Best research evidence
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An idea or a concept that is implicit in and recurrent throughout the data:
saturated
clinical significance
theme
Content analysis
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"Potential association between child's height and rating of anxiety" is what type of study?
correlational
experimental
quasi-experimental
descriptive
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Research asked closed ended questions, analyzed numerical data to reject or accept hypothesis:
Quantitative Research
Qualitative Research
Systematic Review Research
Mixed Method Research
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Principles of respect for persons, beneficence, justice, relevant to conduct of research:
human rights
research laws
professional standards
ethical principles
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Agreement by a subject to participate voluntarily in a study after understanding invormation
anonymity
human rights
informed consent
confidentiality
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The most appropriate reason for conducting a mixed-method research study:
Second approach enhances understanding of the existing study
This approach is easy to conduct
Generates the best available evidence on the topic
An individual approach can adequately answer the question
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"The lived experience of parental caregiving to a dying child"
Qualitative
Quantitative
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Prisoners are:
undesirable research participants d/t their status/ inmate
part of a protected group and a vulnerable population
eligible for mandatory compensation as research participants
unable to be research participants
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What is the main goal of the quantitative research approach?
Generalize findings
gain in-depth understanding
Transfer findings
Develop practice guidelines
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The meaning of the representativeness of a sample:
sample and population can be manipulated
can apply findings from sample to target pouplation
sample is similar to target population
can apply findings from sample to another population
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Consistency that a measure will give same result if the aspect being measured has not changed:
validity
replicability
reliability
resilience
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The variables of heart rate, blood pressure are measured after the completion of an exercise
demographic variables
independent variable
extraneous variable
dependent variable
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What is the main reason to use evidenced informed practice?
To practice as an accountable professional
To provide quality, cost effective care with good outcomes
To create plans that match patient need
To find interventions that cure disease
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What is defined as the "study's findings are applicable to the total population"?
credibility
generalizability
trustworthiness
probability
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Global dementia can't give legal consent to participate, but the researcher may try to obtain:
verbal consent
informal consent
assent
video consent
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Critical theory says that:
reality is constructed by those with the most power
truth is relative and subjective
not all things can be understood
reality is constructed by individual perception
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"The effect of exercise on measures of cardiovascular function"
Quantitative
Qualitative
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Type of quantitative research that involves the investigation of relationships among variables
quasi-experimental research
descriptive research
correlational research
framework
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Area of concern or gap in the knowledge base and thus requires study
research topic
research purpose
research problem
research question
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As a researcher, what would be a threat to validity?
A sample that represents the population
Differences between two medication trials
Finding unexpected results
participants who drop out of the study
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Main purpose of statistical analysis:
summarize and interpret data
identify and explain patients' response to care
generate and validate knowledge
identify and discuss best research evidence
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The researcher offered $250 to university students to participate in a one hour study
risk
coercion
benefit
incentive
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The purpose of control in a study design is to increase the:
validity of the findings
probability that results are true to reality
credibility of the researcher
flaws in the study design
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"Meaning of menopause to rural Appalachian women"
Quantitative
Qualitative
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Selecting 8 participants who had experienced war in their country is this type of sampling:
convenience sampling
quota sampling
random sampling
purposive sampling
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"Demographic factors that contribute to risk-taking behaviours in low-income adolescents"
Qualitative
Quantitative
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Pain is a physiological and psychological response to stimulus whenever a patient says it does
independent variable
dependent variable
operational definition
conceptual definition
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Which is NOT considered a threat to external validity?
Hawthorne effect
Effect size
Novelty effect
Experimenter effect
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"Struggling through: The process of adapting to widowhood"
Qualitative
Quantitiative
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"Surviving SARS: Insiders' perspectives"
Qualitative
Quantitative
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"Predictors of length of stay in hospital among maternity patients"
Quantitative
Qualitative
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Description of how variables will be measured or manipulated in a study.
Conceptual definition of variable
Research Problem
Dependent Variable
Operational definition of variable
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Variables that exist in all studies and can affect the measurement of a study variables.
hypothesis
dependent variable
extraneous variable
demographic variable
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Why do researchers conduct a review of relevant literature?
To review relevant data about the literature
To determine qualitative and quantitative knowledge
To get a picture of what is known/not known about a problem
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Undergraduate nursing students are required to study research methods so they are able to:
compute statistical analyses of data
conduct research studies
evaluate research reports for relevance to clinical practice
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"The meaning of hope in patients waiting for a donor organ"
Qualitative
Quantitative
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As a new nurse, it is important to perform a skill based on:
What your experienced mentor recommends
Evidence, clinical judgement, patient preferences
What the doctor's order directs you to do
The way it has always been done
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Which is appropriate for the question "what is the average temperature of patients"?
inferential statistics
descriptive statistics
Chi-square
ANOVA
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Formal statement of the expected relationship between two or more variables in a population
dependent variable
demographic variable
independent variable
hypothesis
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Selecting random sample from young, middle, and older adult populations for a study:
non-probability sampling
stratified random sampling
convenience sampling
network sampling
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A threat to research when another activity occurs at the same time the study was ongoing:
Maturation threat
Instrumental threat
Testing effect
Historical threat
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The ethical principle of “respect for persons” implies:
Promote good
Do no harm
Allow autonomous individuals to make their own decisions
Fair treatment for all
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"The prevalence of depression in public nursing homes"
Quantitative
Qualitative
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"The effect of oral support measures on growth patterns of very low birth weight infants"
Quantitative
Qualitative
