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